Home Assistant incident

Degraded performance on community forums

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Home Assistant experienced a minor incident on August 20, 2026 affecting Forums, lasting 5h 25m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 07:31 PM UTC
Duration
5h 25m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

Affected components

Forums

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

    We are actively investigating the reasons for the Degraded Performance on the community forums.

  2. identified Aug 20, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC

    We identified the issue and are actively working to mitigate it.

  3. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

    We are experiencing degraded availability due to a distributed denial-of-service attack. Mitigation measures are active, and we are monitoring recovery. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.

  4. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 03:49 PM UTC

    Mitigation measures are active, and we are monitoring recovery. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.

  5. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 07:31 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.