Onfido incident

Delays in processing reports in the US cluster

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Onfido experienced a minor incident on July 27, 2026 affecting API and Document Verification and 1 more component, lasting 1h 9m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 27, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 27, 2026, 07:21 PM UTC
Duration
1h 9m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 27, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC

Affected components

APIDocument VerificationFacial SimilarityKnown faces

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 27, 2026, 06:12 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating delays in our US cluster for the processing of Facial Similarity, Document and Known Faces reports.

  2. investigating Jul 27, 2026, 06:23 PM UTC

    We are seeing degraded performance of some nodes in our search cluster for indexed faces. We continue to investigate the root cause and possible remediations.

  3. identified Jul 27, 2026, 06:51 PM UTC

    We've identified the root cause of degraded performance in our US search cluster and are actively working to resolve it. We'll follow up once fully restored.

  4. monitoring Jul 27, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC

    We implemented a fix and continue to monitor the quality of processing time, which is now improved.

  5. monitoring Jul 27, 2026, 07:20 PM UTC

    Processing time keeps improving, all systems are now operational.

  6. resolved Jul 27, 2026, 07:21 PM UTC

    Processing times are back to normal. This issue is now resolved. Post-mortem to follow soon.