mastodon.social incident

DDoS attack in progress

Minor Resolved View vendor source →
Started
Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC

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  1. 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.

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