Socket Outage History

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Socket had 44 outages in the last 2 years totaling 88h 6m of downtime — averaging 1.8 incidents per month.

There were 44 Socket outages since August 8, 2024 totaling 88h 6m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.socket.dev

Minor June 8, 2026

Degraded API Performance

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 08, 2026, 09:56 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 08, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC
Duration
1h 59m
Affected: Socket API
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Jun 08, 2026, 09:56 PM UTC

    We are investigating degraded performance affecting API responses.

  2. identified Jun 08, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

    We have identified a fix and are working on testing and deployment.

  3. monitoring Jun 08, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. monitoring Jun 08, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. resolved Jun 08, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 26, 2026

Degraded system performance

Detected by Pingoru
May 26, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC
Resolved
May 27, 2026, 02:55 AM UTC
Duration
9h 9m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating May 26, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC

    We noticed that the page load times are increased and we are currently investigating the issue.

  2. identified May 26, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

    We have identified a fix and it still working on it.

  3. identified May 26, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

    We have implemented a fix, and system performance is recovering. We are continuing to monitor the system to ensure stability.

  4. resolved May 27, 2026, 02:55 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 25, 2026

Elevated latency on socket.dev

Detected by Pingoru
May 25, 2026, 08:44 AM UTC
Resolved
May 25, 2026, 09:31 AM UTC
Duration
47m
Affected: Socket WebsiteSocket Dashboard
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified May 25, 2026, 08:44 AM UTC

    We have identified elevated latency and timeouts on socket.dev caused by high request load. We are working on a solution.

  2. monitoring May 25, 2026, 09:03 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved May 25, 2026, 09:31 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor May 5, 2026

Investigating reports of API scan timeouts

Detected by Pingoru
May 05, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC
Resolved
May 05, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Duration
4h 34m
Affected: Socket API
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating May 05, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating reports of timeouts through our scan APIs.

  2. monitoring May 05, 2026, 04:57 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved May 05, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 29, 2026

Degraded Maven scanning performance

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 29, 2026, 07:48 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 29, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC
Duration
58m
Affected: Package PagesJava Analysis
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 29, 2026, 07:48 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting a subset of Maven scans.

  2. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 21, 2026

Delayed scans runs

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 21, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 21, 2026, 08:56 PM UTC
Duration
1h 22m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 21, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating a problem with delays in running scans via the GitHub App and API.

  2. identified Apr 21, 2026, 07:34 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. resolved Apr 21, 2026, 08:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 11, 2026

Increased latency and timeouts

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 11, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 11, 2026, 08:39 PM UTC
Duration
3h 39m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 11, 2026, 07:28 PM UTC

    We have identified a problem causing increased error rates and timeouts throughout our system. We are working on a fix.

  2. monitoring Apr 11, 2026, 08:06 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring.

  3. resolved Apr 11, 2026, 08:39 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 8, 2026

Github App Reports are delayed

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 08, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 08, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC
Duration
3h 20m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Apr 08, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC

    We are observing a delay in starting GitHub App reports. We have identified the cause, and are rolling out a fix.

  2. monitoring Apr 08, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Apr 08, 2026, 11:45 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 7, 2026

GitHub App reports are delayed

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 07, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 07, 2026, 04:41 PM UTC
Duration
24m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Apr 07, 2026, 04:17 PM UTC

    We are observing a delay in starting GitHub App reports. We have identified the cause, and are rolling out a fix.

  2. resolved Apr 07, 2026, 04:41 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 6, 2026

Elevated report latency

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 06, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 06, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC
Duration
1h 26m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 06, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating timeouts affecting ~1% of GitHub App reports.

  2. monitoring Apr 06, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Apr 06, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor March 25, 2026

Investigating: Degraded Dashboard and API Performance

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 25, 2026, 02:36 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 25, 2026, 02:51 AM UTC
Duration
15m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Mar 25, 2026, 02:36 AM UTC

    We are investigating reports of page load failures across the Socket dashboard. Some users may experience slow or failed page loads or API calls. We are actively working to resolve the issue and will provide updates as we have them.

  2. monitoring Mar 25, 2026, 02:46 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 02:51 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical March 14, 2026

GitHub App reports not starting

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 14, 2026, 06:16 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 14, 2026, 06:54 AM UTC
Duration
37m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Mar 14, 2026, 06:16 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating problems with GitHub App reports not starting. Preliminary investigation shows high error rates coming from the upstream GitHub API.

  2. resolved Mar 14, 2026, 06:54 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major March 13, 2026

Dashboard access unavailable due to DNS issue

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 13, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 13, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC
Duration
7m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Mar 13, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue that is causing an outage due to DNS. We are investigating and determining the impact

  2. investigating Mar 13, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and seeing services load.

  3. resolved Mar 13, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC

    The outage was caused by a DNS migration which has now been resolved.

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Major March 6, 2026

GitHub app reports are stuck not starting

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 06, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 07, 2026, 07:04 AM UTC
Duration
14h 48m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 06, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue with some GitHub app reports not starting.

  2. investigating Mar 06, 2026, 05:50 PM UTC

    GitHub is having a Webhooks incident which may be impacting webhook deliveries to Socket. We are working to confirm this.

  3. investigating Mar 06, 2026, 08:53 PM UTC

    We have investigated further and still believe this to be a problem with GitHub upstream. We are working on implementing mitigations. If a PR has a stuck check run, please try closing and reopening the PR. This will cause GitHub to send another webhook, which should be delivered.

  4. resolved Mar 07, 2026, 07:04 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 25, 2026

Elevated GitHub App report latency

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 25, 2026, 03:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 25, 2026, 04:02 AM UTC
Duration
50m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 25, 2026, 03:12 AM UTC

    We are experiencing elevated GitHub App report run times. We are currently investigating.

  2. resolved Feb 25, 2026, 04:02 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice January 8, 2026

Packages are being incorrectly flagged as malware

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 08, 2026, 08:59 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 08, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC
Duration
2h 41m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Jan 08, 2026, 08:59 PM UTC

    We have observed that a large number packages have been incorrectly flagged as malware, with incorrect threat descriptions. We are working on a fix.

  2. resolved Jan 08, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 18, 2025

We are investigating an issue that could cause Github Check runs to not run

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 18, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 18, 2025, 12:42 PM UTC
Duration
2h 54m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 18, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue

  2. monitoring Dec 18, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

    We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the status

  3. resolved Dec 18, 2025, 12:42 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical December 18, 2025

Investigating issues with some of the API endpoints returning 503

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 18, 2025, 09:34 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 18, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC
Duration
3h 7m
Affected: Socket API
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 18, 2025, 09:34 AM UTC

    Some endpoints are returning a 503. We are currently investigating

  2. monitoring Dec 18, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

    We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the status

  3. resolved Dec 18, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical November 18, 2025

Socket website intermittently loading for some users

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 18, 2025, 12:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 18, 2025, 03:16 PM UTC
Duration
2h 59m
Affected: Socket WebsitePackage Pages
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. identified Nov 18, 2025, 12:16 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue with an upstream cloud provider that may be intermittently affecting the Socket website and package pages for some users.

  2. monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 12:30 PM UTC

    Our upstream cloud provider is working on remediating their outage, and we are seeing traffic fully recover. We will continue to monitor.

  3. monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 01:16 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 02:45 PM UTC

    The issue is resolved

  5. monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 02:48 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  6. resolved Nov 18, 2025, 03:16 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor November 14, 2025

Issue causing intermittent API Errors

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 14, 2025, 05:05 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 14, 2025, 06:42 PM UTC
Duration
1h 37m
Affected: Socket API
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Nov 14, 2025, 05:05 PM UTC

    We have received reports of intermittent errors with the API and we are investigating

  2. resolved Nov 14, 2025, 06:42 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major October 22, 2025

Socket platform outage

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 22, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 22, 2025, 03:51 PM UTC
Duration
5h 7m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Oct 22, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

    Some parts of the Socket platform are unavailable due to underlying infrastructure issues. Package pages are not loading and scans are not completing. We are working to resolve these issues as fast as possible.

  2. monitoring Oct 22, 2025, 11:36 AM UTC

    We identified a problem with an upstream cloud provider. We have implemented a workaround, which has restored service. We are continuing to monitor for problems.

  3. resolved Oct 22, 2025, 03:51 PM UTC

    The issue has been fully resolved, and all services are now back to normal. During the incident, some Socket GitHub app actions were automatically closed due to timeouts, but new runs are now completing successfully.

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Major September 29, 2025

Issues loading Org Alerts, Repository stats, and overview page

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 29, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 29, 2025, 05:26 PM UTC
Duration
4h 15m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 29, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Sep 29, 2025, 03:11 PM UTC

    This issue was caused by an upstream cloud provider. We have implemented a workaround, and functionality should be restored shortly.

  3. resolved Sep 29, 2025, 05:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 26, 2025

Issues loading Org Alerts, Repository stat, and overview page

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 26, 2025, 08:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 27, 2025, 12:44 AM UTC
Duration
3h 58m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Sep 26, 2025, 08:46 PM UTC

    We have found an issue that is impacting certain Socket Plans for loading of the historical alerts. We are currently working on a fix.

  2. identified Sep 26, 2025, 09:18 PM UTC

    We have implemented a partial fix and some functionality has been restored, we are working on a few remaining fixes.

  3. resolved Sep 27, 2025, 12:44 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 17, 2025

Elevated scan latency

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 17, 2025, 07:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 17, 2025, 09:47 PM UTC
Duration
2h 12m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket Dashboard
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Sep 17, 2025, 07:34 PM UTC

    A small percentage of scans are experiencing timeouts due to high load within our system. We have identified the cause and are implementing a fix.

  2. identified Sep 17, 2025, 07:47 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. monitoring Sep 17, 2025, 08:55 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Sep 17, 2025, 09:47 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 19, 2025

Org Alerts are showing no results for some customers

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 19, 2025, 01:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 19, 2025, 04:02 PM UTC
Duration
14h 49m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 19, 2025, 01:12 AM UTC

    We are investigating an issue impacting some customers where Org Alerts and Org Overview might be empty.

  2. resolved Aug 19, 2025, 04:02 PM UTC

    Organization alerts and overview data is now loading and this issue has been resolved.

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