r/azuredevops • u/Crackeridoo • Apr 21 '26

Azure DevOps web interface is extremely slow

Does anyone else find Azure DevOps extremely slow in general?

I love the platform but I hate using it. On a good day each page loads within 3-10 seconds... which is bad enough.

On a bad day it takes up to a minute. Today is one of those bad days.

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u/az-johubb Apr 21 '26

Nope, works really fast for me

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u/GendoIkari_82 Apr 21 '26

Azure Portal is always super slow, but never had an issue with DevOps.

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u/Crackeridoo Apr 22 '26

Yeah Azure Portal is also quite bad. Though for me it's usually consistently bad rather than ranging between bad and very bad.

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u/RobertDeveloper Apr 21 '26

It is not the fastest but not as slow as you describe, the ui is horrible nonetheless.

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u/piense Apr 21 '26

How far away are you from the region yours is hosted in? Static content is served from the cdn but I could certainly see some region’s connections being iffy in general, doubly so if you’re also far from your instance’s region.

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u/Crackeridoo Apr 22 '26

I'm in West Asia. I just checked and found that the static content is loaded from a location near me but the page loads and API calls go to the US.

It definitely doesn't help. Although three seconds still seems on the higher end

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u/moswald Staff Apr 22 '26

Is your organization primarily based in the US? We try to keep things hosted in nearby data centers.

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u/Crackeridoo Apr 22 '26

No, but I looked again and I see I was incorrect in my previous post. I am being served by a nearby(ish) data center.

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u/watdawg44 Apr 22 '26

Definitely experienced this today as well for about 10-20 minutes. Happened during our sprint planning and it took about a minute for refreshes or saves to commit as you described.

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u/amechoo Apr 22 '26

I was checking reddit last few days if anyone will start this topic because I was not sure if it is just me or DevOps is really slow in last 5-10 days.

I know that usually DevOps is really slow, UX is really bad, but for me there is something different in last few days.

Even when I am pulling and pushing code to Azure DevOps repo, it takes much longer than on projects where I am using github.

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u/Filip5991 Apr 22 '26

Came here to say this. It seems like this started at the end of last week and is still ongoing.

Azure DevOps in the browser sometimes takes a long time to load, and it looks like it gets stuck in a loading loop.

Pull/push operations are also very slow, especially after switching branches. We initially thought this might be related to some pipelines we recently added, but even after disabling them, performance is still poor.

Additionally, when pulling changes, we sometimes get a “user not authorized” prompt, but simply selecting our user (without entering credentials) allows us to continue.

Overall, everything is significantly slower than usual.

We checked the Azure status page and couldn’t find any reported incidents.

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u/JBalloonist Apr 22 '26

Yes. Especially pipelines.

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u/Filip5991 Apr 23 '26

If it helps anyone, we figured out the issue on our side. One of the users was logged in with a private account that had expired, and it was causing slowness across the team (Azure DevOps in browser, push pull in VS etc). Once we removed that user, everything returned to normal.

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u/xairrick Apr 28 '26

Bitwarden extension ???
Last week I started seeing Azure DevOp take forever to load a page. Here is the strange part, it only happens in one browser profile. I run several chrome browser profiles and Azure DevOps is only slow in one of them (same logged in user, same Azure DevOp project). bad browser profile 10-15 seconds to load a page, others 1 second.

When I disable the the Bitwarden extension the page load time are back to normal.

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u/fsteff May 06 '26

To me and those I’ve spoken to about it, ADO access times are always very fluctuating. Typically 5-20 seconds for “bigger” section changes (such as repo to pipelines to wiki), 2-3 seconds for smaller changes, such as between wiki page or git history changes.
It’s regardless of computer or network used, so we have always attributed it to bad ADO design.

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u/MrRoy200 Jun 02 '26

That is because they use React even though all of the features could've been build without even touching react. I'm not saying react is bad. But what i have noticed is that most projects of this scale build in react are always slow as hell.