Dead Man's Snitch Outage History

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Dead Man's Snitch had 3 outages in the last 2 years totaling 8h 51m of downtime — averaging 0.1 incidents per month.

There were 3 Dead Man's Snitch outages since July 29, 2025 totaling 8h 51m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.deadmanssnitch.com

Minor November 22, 2025

Timeouts with check-in receiving

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 22, 2025, 05:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 23, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC
Duration
6h 51m
Affected: Snitch Check-in Processing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Nov 22, 2025, 05:12 PM UTC

    We are experiencing spurious timeouts receiving check-ins for Snitches. The root cause is related to maintenance a service provider is performing on our backend message bus. You may see occasional timeouts though those check-ins should still be processed normally. We are currently investigating a way to work around the timeouts.

  2. monitoring Nov 22, 2025, 08:20 PM UTC

    Maintenance on our primary message bus is ongoing with our service provider however timeouts have stabilized. We're continuing to monitor the system and get a better understanding of the problem. We're also discussing possible changes to mitigate similar issues in the future but we expect it will be a larger project to plan and implement.

  3. resolved Nov 23, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC

    Maintenance on our primary message bus is done and all systems are back to normal. This kind of maintenance shouldn't be causing timeouts or delayed processing and we will be digging into it to ensure it doesn't occur again.

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Minor October 20, 2025

Delayed Email Alerts

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 05:19 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC
Duration
1h 59m
Affected: Email Alerts
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 05:19 PM UTC

    Email alerts are currently backed up due to upstream issues with our service provider (Amazon SES). Integrations (such as Slack and Webhooks) are unaffected though depend on the state of those services.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 06:06 PM UTC

    We've worked through the backlog of email alerts as Amazon SES has recovered for us. We are still monitoring the situation as AWS continues to work through issues with multiple services.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 07:18 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice July 29, 2025

Certificate expired for https://releases.deadmanssnitch.com

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 29, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 29, 2025, 04:30 AM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jul 29, 2025, 11:12 AM UTC

    The certificate for https://releases.deadmanssnitch.com expired early this morning (US Eastern) which left downloads unavailable for roughly 6 hours. We're sorry for the issue and any trouble it caused. The root cause was that we missed migrating a DNS record used to verify the certificate when migrating to a new DNS provider earlier this year.

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