Bitfinex incident

Platform outage connectivity issues

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Bitfinex experienced a critical incident on May 17, 2021 affecting Web Server and Trading Engine and 1 more component, lasting 42m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 17, 2021, 09:20 PM UTC
Resolved
May 17, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC
Duration
42m
Detected by Pingoru
May 17, 2021, 09:20 PM UTC

Affected components

Web ServerTrading EngineBackend WorkersWebSockets

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 17, 2021, 09:20 PM UTC

    We are investigating connectivity issues with the Bitfinex platform. We will keep everyone updated on here and our twitter account https://twitter.com/bitfinex as we know more.

  2. monitoring May 17, 2021, 09:56 PM UTC

    The cause has been identified. The platform is returning to normal operations. We will keep monitoring closely.

  3. resolved May 17, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.