OpenTofu incident

OpenTofu registry is incorrectly rate limiting some users

Resolved after 2 hours 6 minutes, affecting section-253727 (Provider Registry) and section-253727 (Module Registry), on August 13, 2025.

resolved Aug 13, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

We have taken steps to disable the rate limiting rule that was mistakenly firing and we are hearing reports that this issue is now resolved. We have opened a ticket with cloudflare to investigate further about why this rate limiting request was being fired, we will provide an update when we have more information.

Started
Aug 13, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 13, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC
Duration
2h 6m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 13, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC

Affected components

section-253727 (Provider Registry)section-253727 (Module Registry)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 13, 2025, 10:35 AM UTC

    We've identified an issue where the OpenTofu Registry may be incorrectly rate limiting some users. This manifests as an error stating "host registry.opentofu.org requires authentication credentials" when downloading providers when using OpenTofu. Related issue: https://github.com/opentofu/registry/issues/2614

  2. resolved Aug 13, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

    We have taken steps to disable the rate limiting rule that was mistakenly firing and we are hearing reports that this issue is now resolved. We have opened a ticket with cloudflare to investigate further about why this rate limiting request was being fired, we will provide an update when we have more information.

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