Minor incident

VRChat: Realtime Networking Performance Issues (USE, USW)

Affected: USA, West (San José), USA, East (Washington D.C.)

Current status of VRChat: Operational — live VRChat status

Timeline

1. Oct 7, 2026, 02:02 UTC
   investigating
   We're observing upstream provider network connectivity issues with our realtime servers which may result in timeouts and degraded performance across instances hosted in this region. Other regions appear to be unaffected by this issue, for the time being you may temporarily want to choose a different region during instance creation while we're investigating this incident with our provider.
2. Oct 7, 2026, 02:35 UTC
   monitoring
   The issues have cleared up but we will continue to monitor to ensure things remain stable.
3. Oct 7, 2026, 04:29 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by VRChat (original).