Last reviewed by Netlify Support in July 2025
We want to help you build and deploy your site as easily as possible. Our team has written numerous support guides on frequently encountered problems during builds, build/deploy behaviour, drag and drop deploys, and more. In an effort to streamline your searching, we have compiled a list of our Support Guides related to builds and deploys. Each guide contains a ton of useful debugging tips that can likely help you solve your problem.
Troubleshooting and high-level debugging
- Debugging failed builds or build failed with non-zero exit code
- Frequently encountered problems during builds
- Debugging Netlify site builds
- Deploying a site to Netlify - different approaches
- What can Netlify’s staff help debug about my failing builds or deploys?
- Testing your Netlify builds
- Making sure your builds use appropriate resources for Netlify’s build system
Optimizing performance
- How can I optimize my Netlify build time?
- Build Performance Pro-tips
- How long should Netlify builds take?
Build stuck or still running
- My drag and drop deploy is stuck in “Uploading” status
- Hung or stuck, but seemingly successful build
- “Build completed successfully, but the following processes were still running” - how to remove
Builds Failing
- What can I do if my build fails for memory-overallocation-related errors?
- Netlify app builds locally but fails on deploy (case sensitivity)
- My site deploy fails unless Netlify’s build cache is cleared
- “…does not exist or you do not have permission” with failing builds
Configuring Builds
- Conditional build/deploy behavior for context / branch on Netlify
- Using an SSH key via environment variable during build
- How do I access private repositories in the build environment?
- How can I disable automatic git deploys?
- Making analytics distinguish between deployed branches
If you are still having problems after reading through these guides please open a new thread and provide your site name, as much information as you can on what you have already tried, what your build settings are, your package.json, etc. Additionally, if you have an idea for a Support Guide that you don’t see above, please open a new thread and let us know! Thanks!
