GreyNoise experienced a minor incident on August 7, 2026 affecting GreyNoise API and GreyNoise API Data Freshness and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Aug 07, 2026, 03:51 PM UTC
Status: Identified Our API is currently offline; we are investigating the cause and resolution. Affected components GreyNoise Visualizer (Partial outage) GreyNoise API (Full outage) GreyNoise API Data Freshness (Partial outage)
- resolved Aug 07, 2026, 04:55 PM UTC
Status: Resolved The issue was tracked down to DoS-level traffic to our API. We’ve temporarily suspended the accounts generating that traffic, and will be implementing stricter rate limiting of API calls to prevent future occurrences. Affected components GreyNoise API Data Freshness (Operational) GreyNoise Visualizer (Operational) GreyNoise API (Operational)