OpenAthens incident
Degredation Of Service - Managed Proxy Service - P2
OpenAthens experienced a major incident on August 1, 2025 affecting Managed Proxy service, lasting 5d 7h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 01, 2025, 01:45 AM UTC
We’re looking into an issue that's preventing OpenAthens users from accessing the following service(s).
- identified Aug 01, 2025, 02:09 AM UTC
We have made an adjustment to our service configuration in order to resolve the issue, and we are continuing to monitor.
- monitoring Aug 01, 2025, 02:18 AM UTC
We have applied a fix to the issue at 02:43 GMT, 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.
- investigating Aug 01, 2025, 09:56 AM UTC
Further minor downtime has occurred and we are continuing to investigate. The downtime is intermittent and causes a slow down of proxy resources using the eu1.proxy.openathens.net domain. Please contact our service desk team either at [email protected] or https://support.openathens.net if you require assistance regarding this matter. Thank you for your patience while we work on a fix.
- resolved Aug 06, 2025, 09:37 AM UTC
We have monitored the service and seen no outages since Friday 1st August. We are now confident that this issue has been resolved. If you have any questions then please contact our service desk: https://www.openathens.net/support