Bitfinex incident

Service disruption

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Bitfinex experienced a major incident on February 9, 2019 affecting Web Server and Trading Engine and 1 more component, lasting 3h 19m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 09, 2019, 08:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 09, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC
Duration
3h 19m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 09, 2019, 08:09 AM UTC

Affected components

Web ServerTrading EngineBackend WorkersWebSockets

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 09, 2019, 08:09 AM UTC

    Bitfinex is currently not accessible, our admins are currently looking into this. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

  2. identified Feb 09, 2019, 09:15 AM UTC

    The issue has been located and is being resolved as quickly as possible. We will confirm when full platform functionality has resumed.

  3. identified Feb 09, 2019, 10:27 AM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. monitoring Feb 09, 2019, 10:28 AM UTC

    Thank you all for your patience today. Bitfinex will open at 10:30AM UTC as view only, and trading will restart at 10:35AM UTC.

  5. resolved Feb 09, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

    Full functionality has resumed.