Socket incident

Degraded system performance

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Socket experienced a minor incident on May 18, 2026 affecting Socket API and Socket for GitHub, lasting 5h 22m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 18, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC
Resolved
May 19, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC
Duration
5h 22m
Detected by Pingoru
May 18, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC

Affected components

Socket APISocket for GitHub

Update timeline

  1. identified May 18, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC

    Due to an increase in some traffic it has caused degraded performance on our system; we are implementing a fix.

  2. monitoring May 18, 2026, 09:14 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and it appears that numbers are recovering. We are monitoring until some backlogs are fully drained.

  3. resolved May 19, 2026, 12:47 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.