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Starting at 17:00 UTC on June 10, a subset of publishes originating from the North America POP failed to replicate to subscribers globally. PubNub Technical Staff is investigating, and more information will be posted as it becomes available.

The PubNub Technical Staff identified that failures are limited to publishes from US-East and has identified, have applied a fix, and are now monitoring the results. If you are experiencing issues that you believe to be related to this incident, please report the details to PubNub Support ([email protected]).

Services have returned to normal. A root cause analysis will be published in the coming days. If you believe you were impacted and would like to speak with us, please report impact to [email protected].

From 13:20 to 13:48 UTC, users globally may have experienced errors with failure on Publish, and published messages may not have been received by subscribers. We also experienced errors and failures with PubNub Functions, and delays with Events & Actions during the period. Services have returned to normal and we are actively monitoring. A root cause analysis will be published in the coming days. If you believe you were impacted and would like to speak with us, please report impact to [email protected].

### **Problem Description, Impact, and Resolution**  At approximately **13:20 UTC on June 9, 2026**, we observed elevated publish errors and message replication failures in our publish/subscribe service, which also caused latency in other PubNub services globally. Customers may have experienced increased publish error rates, delayed or missed message delivery, delayed message persistence, and increased latency for Functions and Events & Actions workflows. ‌ The root cause of the incident was an unusually large concentration of global publish traffic that was not limited by our throttling layers. That traffic created resource pressure in the publish and replication layers, increased load on storage systems, and caused downstream processing delays in dependent services. We mitigated the issue by adjusting targeted traffic controls, increasing capacity for affected publish and replication components, and isolating the high-volume traffic pattern to reduce broader platform impact. The issue was resolved at approximately **13:48 UTC on June 9, 2026**. ‌ This issue occurred because we did not have sufficient automated controls and isolation processes in place to protect shared infrastructure from this type of exceptional traffic pattern. As a result, the increased load affected multiple services before mitigation could be fully applied.  ‌ ### **Mitigation Steps and Recommended Future Preventative Measures** To prevent a similar issue from occurring in the future, we have isolated the identified high-volume traffic pattern onto dedicated infrastructure and also increased baseline capacity for the affected components across our PoPs. ‌ We are also further strengthening our traffic detection and management processes for exceptional load patterns so they can be identified and contained earlier without cascading impact across dependent services.

As of 19:27 UTC, we are investigating reports of connectivity issues affecting a subset of subscriptions across several global regions. While the majority of the PubNub network is operating normally, users on the affected segment may experience: - Connection delays and increased latency. - Intermittent errors when subscribing to channels. Our engineering team has identified the cause and is actively working to restore stability. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.

The incident has been resolved. If you believe you were impacted by the incident and wish to discuss it with our team, please contact us by email at [email protected]

### **Problem Description, Impact, and Resolution**  On March 24, 2026, at 19:27 UTC, one network shard experienced intermittent connectivity affecting a subset of customers. The affected users may have experienced elevated latency and temporary error responses related to their subscription requests. The instability was caused by an atypical surge in message volume within a shared processing environment that had improperly configured resource limits. This led to high resource utilization and triggered automated system restarts. PubNub Engineering resolved the issue by implementing the proper limits after expanding infrastructure capacity to accommodate the increased load. Service was fully stabilized once the environment was tuned to the new traffic profile. ### **Mitigation Steps and Recommended Future Preventative Measures**  **Infrastructure Tuning:** Adjusted automated scaling parameters to provide greater headroom for rapid traffic fluctuations. **Enhanced Traffic Management:** Deployed refined monitoring heuristics to better isolate and manage high-volume traffic patterns without impacting shared resources. **Dynamic Resource Allocation:** Accelerating the rollout of enhanced vertical scaling technology to allow individual processing nodes to adapt more fluidly to demand spikes. **Operational Coordination:** Strengthening internal protocols for high-capacity events to ensure large-scale traffic shifts are proactively transitioned to dedicated environments.