I’m experiencing severe performance issues with my application in Brazil. Since early this morning (September 23rd, Brazilian time), my app has become almost unusable.
Unresponsive Pages: Pages are frequently freezing and becoming unresponsive.
Slow Data Loading: I’m seeing extremely slow loading times, particularly with data-heavy elements like tables. A specific table that previously loaded data progressively and helped with perceived performance is now taking up to 40 seconds to load, with all data appearing at once.
Dysfunctional Logs: The application logs are not functioning correctly, and I am unable to view my consumed work units.
The poor performance is significantly impacting the user experience and is much worse than usual. It seems to have started suddenly today.
Problem Start Date: September 23rd (Brazilian time)
Geographic Region: Brazil
Symptoms:
High page load latency.
Significant delays (up to 40 seconds) for data-intensive components to render.
Element rendering behavior has changed, with progressive loading no longer occurring (tables).
Inability to access or track Work Unit (WU) consumption in the application logs (logs are slow and irresponsive).
I am looking for a solution or any information regarding potential platform-wide issues that might be affecting my application’s performance. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
First step should be to share your app link. So we can test if the issue is related to ISP or something like that.
This is the first time you post on the forum, so I guess you may be a new Bubbler? Welcome… but the issue could also be related to how you built your app…
Finally, if you look at the https://status.bubble.io/ … you can see actually that Bubble seem to have an increased system latency… so it could be related.
Bubble is actually working on some improvment in the backend that have caused issue since a week. This could be related
This story of yours reminds me of a time when I accidentally triggered a workflow loop and my application ended up exactly like that, slow, everything froze, the log was a mess… until I figured it out, it was hard… And after I figured it out, it was even worse $$$$$$$
A few months ago on our client’s dedicated instance, which uses subapps, I triggered a recursive workflow that didn’t stop due to a quirk in how Bubble deals with versions of backend workflows. That recursive workflow ran on the main app, AND all the subapps! It was almost impossible to stop them all as the editor runs on the same infra so almost crashed and I had to go through every single subapp to fix them!
It’s horrible. You get desperate trying to control it. It seems simple, but in theory, it isn’t. In my case, I couldn’t cancel the executions because they kept rescheduling themselves too quickly.
I had to remove the workflow from the development version and deploy it to the production version without it… and then it finally stopped.
Thank you for the follow-up. Unfortunately, I cannot share a link to my application. It is an internal enterprise tool that handles confidential data and is only accessible via login.
I am still facing the extreme performance degradation issue. I would like to provide more specific details:
The main feature of my app is a table element that aggregates data from our ongoing processes (currently around 1600 active records).
Until yesterday: This table loaded progressively. The initial records appeared quickly, and the rest loaded in the background. The user experience was smooth, and the full load was not noticeable.
Since this morning: The same table now takes over 45 seconds to load. The page freezes, and browsers like Firefox warn that the tab is slowing the entire browser down. When it finally loads, all 1600+ records appear at once, not progressively.
This change was sudden and no updates were made on my end.
I’m also still having issues accessing the workunit logs. I noticed that the Bubble status page was updated acknowledging the log access problem after my initial post, but there is no mention of this severe performance issue that many of us seem to be experiencing.
My app was working perfectly until yesterday. This situation is critical as our business is expanding. Given that other users are reporting similar problems, I strongly suspect this is not a user-side configuration error but a broader platform issue.
Could you please confirm if the team is investigating this widespread slowness in addition to the workunit log issue?
I ran another test to time the page and table load. It has been over 5 minutes, and the content has still not loaded.
For all practical purposes, the page is completely frozen. The issue has escalated from being extremely slow to making the application entirely unusable (could be an issue only with the table element?). We are at a standstill.
Guys, as I mentioned, all my Apps are for Brazilians as well…
I’ve been using them all day. So have my clients. The app is running perfectly.
I noticed you mentioned the table element, which I don’t use.
All my tables are created from repeating groups.
So I inserted a table into one of my pages and loaded the users (just their first names). There are approximately 4,000 users. The table took about 8-10 seconds and displayed them all at once…
I’ve never used the tables component, but I imagine that loading everything at once isn’t really what’s expected. That’s probably what’s causing the problems…
A few questions:
Have you opened a bug report?
Try creating a page and recreating your table, but using repeating groups, see if performance improves…
Something very strange is happening. Something has changed.
This is a very simple page; only one table is being listed in this search. When it shows 284 records, everything runs smoothly, but when I filter to a higher number (which was never a problem for Bubble until yesterday), the system simply freezes.
It might be the Table element, or any other element on the page… But we need someone to guide us on what exactly to test…
1 - Yes, I’ve submitted a bug report. Just waiting to hear back from them.
2 - We already had a mobile view for this data using a Repeating Group (maybe 70% of the full data from the table), and its performance appears to be normal, only a little on the slow side.
I’m facing the exact same problem, right down to the browser alerts. My situation might be even more severe, as my table is much larger and more complex. It has more columns, more data, and many fields that rely on complex queries, calculations, and conditional logic.
I’m not a professional developer and I cant read all of what’s happening on browser console, but it seems to be a forever loading or a full loading, without a pagination as its usual on tables/repeating groups.
I’ve made another video, maybe someone can see something wrong.
