Pentest Tools incident
Platform load and external services issues report 📝
Pentest Tools experienced a minor incident on December 16, 2025 affecting Pentest-Tools.com services (Pentest-Tools.com platform) and Pentest-Tools.com services (Pentest-Tools.com API), lasting –. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Pentest-Tools.com services (Pentest-Tools.com platform)Pentest-Tools.com services (Pentest-Tools.com API)
Update timeline
- resolved Dec 16, 2025, 01:40 PM UTC
We experienced periods of increased platform load alongside external services failures, which led to 10 separate incidents. Each incident required manual intervention to restore normal operations, and the combined impact resulted in 1 hour and 54 minutes of downtime in 2 days. All issues were fully resolved on December 11th at 9:14 am EET.