OpenAthens Outage History

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OpenAthens had 10 outages in the last 2 years totaling 22h 0m of downtime — averaging 0.4 incidents per month.

There were 10 OpenAthens outages since November 24, 2025 totaling 22h 0m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.openathens.net

Critical September 30, 2026

Service Outage - Authentication broker - P1

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 30, 2026, 05:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 30, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC
Duration
6h 47m
Affected: Authentication broker
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Sep 30, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC

    A release to our core services at 6:30 a.m. UK time caused an outage to brokered authentication. We have now resolved the issue and will continue to monitor for the time being. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

  2. monitoring Sep 30, 2026, 09:01 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 30, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

    Following the fix at 9:50 a.m UK time and after monitoring our service, we are now confident that this has been resolved. If you are still having issues then please contact our service desk: https://www.openathens.net/support

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Critical September 15, 2026

Service Desk portal not available

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 15, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 15, 2026, 01:35 AM UTC
Duration
30m
Affected: Service Desk portal
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Sep 15, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Sep 15, 2026, 01:19 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. identified Sep 15, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. resolved Sep 15, 2026, 01:35 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor July 6, 2026

Service Outage - Support Portal - P3

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 06, 2026, 09:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 06, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC
Duration
2h 27m
Affected: Service Desk portal
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Jul 06, 2026, 09:35 AM UTC

    Due to issues with the Jira Service Management Cloud platform, the OpenAthens support portal is currently unavailable. Our team is awaiting further information regarding this disruption. We will update you within the next hour.

  2. monitoring Jul 06, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

    Atlassian have begun to roll out a fix which is predicted to be completed within the next hour. We will update you once access is restored to the OpenAthens Support Portal.

  3. resolved Jul 06, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC

    Access to the OpenAthens support portal has been restored.

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Minor June 15, 2026

Degradation Of Service - Authentication Point - P3

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 15, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 15, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Duration
—
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jun 17, 2026, 02:14 PM UTC

    Some OpenAthens customers may have experienced difficulties when accessing online resources between 08:15 15th June and 13:30 17th June UK time. This was caused by a parsing issue that was introduced with a recent release of the OpenAthens authentication point. We rolled back this release to resolve the problem. We apologise for any inconvenience this caused.

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Major April 30, 2026

Service Outage - Authentication Point - P2

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 30, 2026, 01:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 01:57 PM UTC
Duration
24m
Affected: Authentication Point
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 30, 2026, 01:17 PM UTC

    We’re looking into an issue that's preventing OpenAthens users from accessing the following service. Authentication Point The issue started at 14:00 BST Our team is working to understand what has caused the issue and we will update you within the next hour.

  2. monitoring Apr 30, 2026, 01:33 PM UTC

    We have applied a fix to the issue at 14:20 UK time, everything is working as expected and all services are up and running. We are keeping a close eye on things, if the situation changes we will keep you up to date. If you are still having issues then please contact our service desk team: https://www.openathens.net/support

  3. resolved Apr 30, 2026, 01:57 PM UTC

    Following the fix at 14:20 UK time and after monitoring our service, we are now confident that this has been resolved. If you are still having issues then please contact our service desk: https://www.openathens.net/support

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Major April 21, 2026

Degradation Of Service - Redirector - P2

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 21, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 21, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC
Duration
—
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Apr 23, 2026, 03:19 PM UTC

    An outage occurred between 08:34 and 11:21 BST during a routine upgrade of the Managed Proxy service. Customers accessing certain resources via the Redirector (https://go.openathens.net). During that time users would have seen a phishing error. We applied a fix as soon as we became aware of the incident which restored the service to full functionality.

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Minor February 10, 2026

P3 - Redirector encountering increased link resolution times

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 10, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 10, 2026, 02:29 PM UTC
Duration
3h 58m
Affected: Redirector
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Feb 10, 2026, 02:26 PM UTC

    We have had reports of users encountering a 'This site took too long to respond' error whilst waiting for their links to be resolved.

  2. monitoring Feb 10, 2026, 02:28 PM UTC

    The issue has been investigated and a fix has been applied

  3. resolved Feb 10, 2026, 02:29 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 5, 2025

Service Outage - Wayfinder - P2

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 05, 2025, 01:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 05, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
3h 46m
Affected: Wayfinder
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Dec 05, 2025, 01:43 PM UTC

    We’re looking into an issue that's preventing OpenAthens users from accessing the following service. Wayfinder The issue started at 13:09 BST Our team is working to understand what has caused the issue and we will update you within the next hour.

  2. monitoring Dec 05, 2025, 02:05 PM UTC

    We have applied a fix to the issue at 13:38 UK time, everything is working as expected and all services are up and running. We are keeping a close eye on things, if the situation changes we will keep you up to date. If you are still having issues then please contact our service desk team: https://www.openathens.net/support

  3. monitoring Dec 05, 2025, 02:06 PM UTC

    Service is operational.

  4. resolved Dec 05, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC

    Following the fix at 13:38 UK time and after monitoring our service, we are now confident that this has been resolved. If you are still having issues then please contact our service desk: https://www.openathens.net/support

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Major December 1, 2025

Service Outage - Service Desk portal - P3

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 01, 2025, 09:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 01, 2025, 12:39 PM UTC
Duration
3h 29m
Affected: Service Desk portal
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Dec 01, 2025, 09:09 AM UTC

    The maintenance for our Service Desk portal is ongoing past the original planned downtime. We appreciate that may cause some disruption and we are working towards a resolution as quick as possible. Thank you for your patience while we carry out improvements to our service. If you require support, please email [email protected] or phone +44 (0) 300 121 0043

  2. identified Dec 01, 2025, 12:01 PM UTC

    The Service Desk portal is working as expected and you are now able to raise tickets as you were before.

  3. resolved Dec 01, 2025, 12:39 PM UTC

    The Service Desk portal is now working as expected. The new portal will have a slightly new look. If you have any questions on this new experience please let us know.

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Major November 24, 2025

OpenAthens Emergency Maintenance - Service Desk Portal

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 24, 2025, 09:43 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 24, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC
Duration
36m
Affected: Service Desk portal
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Nov 24, 2025, 09:43 AM UTC

    Apologies for the short notice but we need to perform essential maintenance work on the following service: Service Desk Portal There will be a brief outage during a service restart

  2. resolved Nov 24, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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