mastodon.social incident
Elasticsearch issues
Resolved after 59 days 18 hours, affecting Website & API and Background queues, on June 6, 2026.
Search functionality has been restored and volume timeouts seem to have been fixed. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Affected components
Update timeline
- 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.
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