mastodon.social Outage History
mastodon.social is up right nowPingoru has recorded 14 incidents for mastodon.social: 13 in the last 12 months and 6 in the last 90 days.
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| Month | Incidents | Hours with an open incident |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 2 | 20 of 720 (3%) |
| May 2026 | 1 | 81 of 744 (11%) |
| June 2026 | 1 | 396 of 720 (55%) |
| July 2026 | 0 | 0 of 744 (0%) |
| August 2026 | 2 | 27 of 744 (4%) |
| September 2026 | 2 | 225 of 720 (31%) |
| October 2026 | 2 | 174 of 526 (33%) |
Incidents, newest first
Major October 1, 2026 Hetzner Connectivity Issues 1d 5h Website & API, Background queues
Started Oct 01, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC· resolved Oct 02, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC
- investigating Oct 01, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC
We are experiencing connectivity issues with our servers within Hetzner. We are investigating the issue.
- investigating Oct 01, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC
Hetzner is reporting vSwitch outages, which are likely the cause of our connectivity issues. We are monitoring and continuing to look for workarounds.
- monitoring Oct 01, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC
Cluster connectivity is slowly returning, and all services are operation, though at reduced performance. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
- monitoring Oct 01, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC
Performance has returned to normal. We will continue to keep an eye on the situation.
- resolved Oct 02, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Major September 25, 2026 Website and API is down 26m Website & API
Started Sep 25, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC· resolved Sep 25, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC
- investigating Sep 25, 2026, 07:43 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this incident.
- resolved Sep 25, 2026, 08:09 AM UTC
This was caused by a migration, which has been rolled back. All services are back online.
Minor September 21, 2026 Degraded performance on API and website 28d 16h Website & API
Started Sep 21, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC· resolved Oct 20, 2026, 07:58 AM UTC
- investigating Sep 21, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC
We are experiencing performance degradation and higher than usual error rates on the API and the web interface. As we are currently making changes to our infrastructure we initially thought it was the cause and rolled it back, but the service is still degraded and it does not seem to be related to our migration. We are investigating the source further.
- monitoring Sep 22, 2026, 06:46 PM UTC
Situation is now stable. We will continue keeping a close look on the performance for the next few days while we continue our infrastructure changes.
Major August 19, 2026 Website inaccessible 25m Website & API
Started Aug 19, 2026, 02:41 PM UTC· resolved Aug 19, 2026, 03:06 PM UTC
- investigating Aug 19, 2026, 02:41 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this incident.
- identified Aug 19, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
It's DNS.
- resolved Aug 19, 2026, 03:06 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Major August 5, 2026 Elasticsearch issues 1d 2h Website & API
Started Aug 05, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC· resolved Aug 06, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC
- investigating Aug 05, 2026, 03:07 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 Aug 05, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC
We identified the source of the abnormal search trafic and are working on a solution
- monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 05:43 PM UTC
We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result.
- resolved Aug 06, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Minor May 28, 2026 Performance degradation 5d 21h Website & API
Started May 28, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC· resolved Jun 03, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC
- 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.
Major April 23, 2026 DDoS attack in progress 20h 5m Overall, Website & API, Background queues, Media storage and 1 more
Started Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC· resolved Apr 24, 2026, 05:54 AM UTC
- 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.
Minor April 20, 2026 DDoS – Overall
Started Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC· resolved Apr 20, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC
No vendor updates were posted for this incident.
Major February 25, 2026 Hetzner Outage – Overall
Started Feb 25, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC· resolved Feb 25, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC
No vendor updates were posted for this incident.
Minor December 17, 2025 Connectivity/timeout issues with sidekiq – Overall
Started Dec 17, 2025, 02:00 PM UTC· resolved Dec 17, 2025, 02:00 PM UTC
No vendor updates were posted for this incident.
Major November 3, 2025 Website is down due to database issue – Overall
Started Nov 03, 2025, 05:20 PM UTC· resolved Nov 03, 2025, 05:20 PM UTC
No vendor updates were posted for this incident.