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Last checked 8m agoActive incident: Elasticsearch issues
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Active incident 1
- Website & APIBackground queues
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Jun 06, 2026, 09:24 PM UTC
There appears to be an issue with our Elasticsearch cluster that is causing the instance to fail. We are currently investigating the issue.
- identified · Jun 06, 2026, 09:46 PM UTC
The issue seems to be incredibly high timeouts on Hetzner volumes, causing components with high-throughput volumes like Elasticsearch to degrade and fail. Search has temporarily been disabled while we investigate this issue and attempt to work around it.
- monitoring · Jun 06, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC
Search functionality has been restored and volume timeouts seem to have been fixed. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Latest: Search functionality has been restored and volume timeouts seem to have been fixed. We will continue to monitor the situation.
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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days-
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved · May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 5 days, 21 hours and 24 minutes Affected Components: Website & API May 28, 15:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We are having issues with the caching server used by mastodon.social, which is causing increased latency and intermittent errors. We are working on implementing a solution. May 28, 19:56:29 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result. Jun 3, 12:23:39 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Latest: Type: Incident Duration: 5 days, 21 hours and 24 minutes Affected Components: Website & API May 28, 15:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We are having issues with the caching server used …
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- Website & API
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified · May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC
We are having issues with the caching server used by mastodon.social, which is causing increased latency and intermittent errors. We are working on implementing a solution.
- monitoring · May 28, 2026, 07:56 PM UTC
We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.
- resolved · Jun 03, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- mastodon.socialWebsite & APIBackground queuesMedia storageStreaming API
Timeline · 4 updates
- identified · Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC
We are (again) targeted by a DDoS attack and [mastodon.social](http://mastodon.social) may not be available while we mitigate it.
- monitoring · Apr 23, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC
We have enabled DDoS protection methods, and services is mostly restored. We still continue to monitor the situation.
- monitoring · Apr 23, 2026, 10:40 AM UTC
The attack seems to have stopped. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
- resolved · Apr 24, 2026, 05:54 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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Timeline · 1 update
- resolved · Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 20 hours and 6 minutes Affected Components: Media storage, Website & API, Streaming API, Background queues Apr 24, 05:54:04 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Apr 23, 09:48:33 GMT+0 - Identified - We are (again) targeted by a DDoS attack and [mastodon.social](http://mastodon.social) may not be available while we mitigate it. Apr 23, 10:05:56 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We have enabled DDoS protection methods, and services is mostly restored. We still continue to monitor the situation. Apr 23, 10:40:45 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The attack seems to have stopped. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
Latest: Type: Incident Duration: 20 hours and 6 minutes Affected Components: Media storage, Website & API, Streaming API, Background queues Apr 24, 05:54:04 GMT+0 - Resolved - This inciden…
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- Elasticsearch issues OngoingStarted Jun 06, 2026, 09:24 PM UTC · ● 6d 23h
- Performance degradation ResolvedStarted May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC · Resolved May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC · —
- Performance degradation ResolvedStarted May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC · Resolved Jun 03, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC · 5d 21h
- DDoS attack in progress ResolvedStarted Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 24, 2026, 05:54 AM UTC · 20h 5m
- DDoS attack in progress ResolvedStarted Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC · —
- DDoS ResolvedStarted Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC · —
- DDoS ResolvedStarted Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC · Resolved Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC · —