Mercatus incident

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Mercatus experienced a notice incident on July 22, 2021 affecting Login & User Authentication, lasting 1h 56m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 22, 2021, 04:40 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 22, 2021, 06:36 PM UTC
Duration
1h 56m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2021, 04:40 PM UTC

Affected components

Login & User Authentication

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 22, 2021, 04:40 PM UTC

    There are reports of widespread issues with DNS at this time. We are closely monitoring our systems and at this time our systems have not been affected. We will post any updates as we know more or if the situation changes.

  2. monitoring Jul 22, 2021, 05:02 PM UTC

    The outage has been identified as an issue with Akamai DNS and is being resolved. As we do not use their services, this should not directly affect our systems. We are continuing to monitor the situation and should be able to close this incident as their fix is propagated.

  3. resolved Jul 22, 2021, 06:36 PM UTC

    The issue with Akamai looks to be resolved now, closing this incident.