Northflank Outage History

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Northflank had 22 outages in the last 2 years totaling 27h 36m of downtime — averaging 0.9 incidents per month.

There were 22 Northflank outages since May 21, 2025 totaling 27h 36m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.northflank.com

Notice October 20, 2026

Partial Control Plane Degredation

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2026, 06:44 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2026, 01:34 PM UTC
Duration
6h 50m
Affected: Northflank AppNorthflank Platform (Logs and Metrics)
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. identified Oct 20, 2026, 06:44 AM UTC

    Availability zone b in GCP europe-west2 is experiencing issues with VM to VM communication impacting parts of the platform. We are working on mitigating the impact. The majority of users and system components are unaffeced.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 07:46 AM UTC

    We have moved the affected parts of the logging and metric components to a different zone. We will continue to monitor the situation.

  3. investigating Oct 20, 2026, 09:40 AM UTC

    The incident has expanded to our core control plane services, affecting login and control plane components. We are working to mitigate the impact. Existing user workloads deployed are unaffected.

  4. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 09:53 AM UTC

    Services are operating normally, and we are monitoring the situation.

  5. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 01:34 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 25, 2026

Degraded SSO login via WorkOS

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 25, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 25, 2026, 04:01 PM UTC
Duration
46m
Affected: Northflank App
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Sep 25, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident.

  2. resolved Sep 25, 2026, 04:01 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 5, 2026

Workloads Failing to Start Across Multiple Regions

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 05, 2026, 01:27 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 05, 2026, 02:27 PM UTC
Duration
1h
Affected: Northflank Platform (Services)Northflank Platform (Addons)Northflank Platform (Jobs)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 05, 2026, 01:27 PM UTC

    We are seeing partial start up issues for workloads across multiple regions. We are currently investigating this incident.

  2. monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and applied a mitigation. Previously stuck workloads are now starting successfully across affected regions. We are monitoring recovery and will confirm once all workloads are fully operational.

  3. resolved Aug 05, 2026, 02:27 PM UTC

    All affected workloads are now fully operational.

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Minor July 22, 2026

Investigating node stability issues in the US - East region

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 22, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC
Duration
1h 22m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Services)Northflank Platform (Addons)Northflank Platform (Jobs)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

    We have noticed increased failure rates of nodes in the US - East region and are investigating the issue.

  2. monitoring Jul 22, 2026, 01:11 PM UTC

    We are seeing recovery across compute and storage. We are working to get the remaining workloads back online.

  3. resolved Jul 22, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

    We have recovered affected workloads in the region and there are no more on-going node failures. The root cause was an outage on the Google Cloud Platform in us-east4 which hosts Northflank's US - East region.

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Minor July 21, 2026

Active DDoS Attack in US - Central

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 21, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 21, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC
Duration
2h 49m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Networking)
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. identified Jul 21, 2026, 11:09 AM UTC

    We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack in the US - Central region. This is affecting public ingress into the cluster. Internal traffic is not affected. The team is working on additional mitigations.

  2. monitoring Jul 21, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

    We have implemented mitigations are monitoring the situation.

  3. resolved Jul 21, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

    The DDoS attack has stopped, we will continue to monitor the affected region.

  4. identified Jul 21, 2026, 01:23 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack in the US - Central region. This is affecting public ingress into the cluster. Internal traffic is not affected. The team is working on additional mitigations.

  5. monitoring Jul 21, 2026, 01:43 PM UTC

    We have implemented mitigations are monitoring the situation.

  6. resolved Jul 21, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. We will continue to monitor the affected region.

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Minor June 18, 2026

Let's Encrypt Certificate Generation Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 18, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 18, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC
Duration
4h 40m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Certificates)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 18, 2026, 06:55 PM UTC

    We are currently observing delays in certificate generation due to an ongoing incident with Let's Encrypt: This will affect provisioning of new addons with TLS enabled, the provisioning of BYOC clusters as well as domain certification provisioning.

  2. monitoring Jun 18, 2026, 11:02 PM UTC

    No recent API errors experienced and addon provisioning is working as expected. We're still closely monitoring Let's Encrypt API responses.

  3. resolved Jun 18, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC

    No more certificate creation errors have been observed from Let's Encrypt. This incident has been resolved.

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Major June 10, 2026

Issues accessing app.northflank.com

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 10, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 10, 2026, 04:14 PM UTC
Duration
16m
Affected: Northflank App
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 10, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident.

  2. monitoring Jun 10, 2026, 04:03 PM UTC

    We implemented a fix and are currently monitoring the result. Users should now be able to log in and access the UI. Running workloads were unaffected.

  3. resolved Jun 10, 2026, 04:14 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor June 10, 2026

Europe - West (London): Intermittent connectivity issues impacting Postgres cluster management

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 10, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 10, 2026, 02:23 PM UTC
Duration
6h 22m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Addons)
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Jun 10, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident. You may see logs in Postgres with the following error message: ``` ERROR: Error communicating with DCS ```

  2. monitoring Jun 10, 2026, 09:59 AM UTC

    We have observed a recovery starting about 20 minutes ago. Currently, Postgres addons are stable.

  3. identified Jun 10, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

    We saw a period of recovery between 09:45 and 10:04 UTC, but the issue has since recurred. This is tied to an ongoing incident affecting our cloud service provider in the region. We are continuing to monitor and will share further updates as we have them

  4. monitoring Jun 10, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

    We have not observed any further issues since 11:05 UTC. We are awaiting confirmation from our cloud provider that the issue is fully resolved on their side, and we will update this status accordingly.

  5. resolved Jun 10, 2026, 02:23 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 13, 2026

Europe - West (London): New resources not able to be created

Detected by Pingoru
May 13, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC
Resolved
May 13, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC
Duration
1h 26m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Services)Northflank Platform (Addons)Northflank Platform (Jobs)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating May 13, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this incident. Existing running workloads are unaffected.

  2. monitoring May 13, 2026, 03:33 PM UTC

    We are seeing an improvement; workloads are starting to be created. Connectivity has been restored, and we are continuing to monitor the situation.

  3. resolved May 13, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 10, 2026

Active DDoS Attack in Europe - West - Netherlands

Detected by Pingoru
May 10, 2026, 06:30 PM UTC
Resolved
May 10, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC
Duration
2h 1m
Affected: Northflank Platform (Services)Northflank Platform (Addons)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified May 10, 2026, 06:30 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing a large DDoS attack in the Europe - West - Netherlands region. This is affecting public ingress into the cluster. Internal traffic is not affected. The team is working on additional mitigations.

  2. monitoring May 10, 2026, 08:10 PM UTC

    We have put in place mitigations and are monitoring the affected region.

  3. resolved May 10, 2026, 08:31 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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