Socket Outage History

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Socket had 44 outages in the last 2 years totaling 144h 46m of downtime — averaging 1.8 incidents per month.

There were 44 Socket outages since August 8, 2024 totaling 144h 46m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.socket.dev

Major August 5, 2025

Organization alerts not loading

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 05, 2025, 09:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 06, 2025, 02:02 AM UTC
Duration
4h 15m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Aug 05, 2025, 09:47 PM UTC

    We are investigating elevated errors and timeouts with loading organization alerts in the dashboard.

  2. investigating Aug 05, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Aug 05, 2025, 10:08 PM UTC

    An upstream cloud provider is having an outage, which is affecting the loading of analytics data in our dashboard. We are awaiting resolution from them. Scanning and blocking of threats continue to operate normally.

  4. monitoring Aug 05, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

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

  5. monitoring Aug 05, 2025, 10:29 PM UTC

    We have made changes to work around our provider issues. Dashboard analytics are currently working again. We are monitoring to ensure the service stays healthy.

  6. resolved Aug 06, 2025, 02:02 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor July 28, 2025

Intermittent issue fetching alerts and analytics

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 28, 2025, 03:09 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 28, 2025, 08:06 PM UTC
Duration
4h 56m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jul 28, 2025, 03:09 PM UTC

    We are seeing increased error rate when fetching alerts and analytics, and the team is investigating.

  2. monitoring Jul 28, 2025, 03:29 PM UTC

    We have increased capacity of the system by scaling up necessary components and we are seeing a decrease in the error rate. We will continue to evaluate our infrastructure to look for ways to avoid issues like this in the future.

  3. resolved Jul 28, 2025, 08:06 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor July 19, 2025

High npm package ingestion/analysis latency

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 19, 2025, 03:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 20, 2025, 01:26 AM UTC
Duration
9h 53m
Affected: JavaScript Analysis
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 19, 2025, 03:32 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing an outage where our system is running behind with downloading tarballs for npm. This issue is preventing users from receiving proper alerts on newly published npm package versions.

  2. investigating Jul 19, 2025, 04:10 PM UTC

    We have identified a processing backlog for npm tarball downloads. However, the backlog is actively being reduced, and services are working normally. We are investigating steps to increase system capacity.

  3. monitoring Jul 19, 2025, 07:20 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented to increase the queue priority for downloading npm tarballs, and additional resources have been provisioned. We are already observing improvements and will continue to monitor the situation closely.

  4. resolved Jul 20, 2025, 01:26 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor July 4, 2025

Degraded performance for Alert Processing

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 04, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 04, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC
Duration
11m
Affected: Socket Dashboard
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 04, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

    We have discovered an issue with our processing of alerts for Org Alerts, Org Dependencies, and and Repo Alerts. It can take longer than usual for them to appear after the latest scan to the default branch of your repo. We are currently investigating.

  2. resolved Jul 04, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC

    Service is working normally again at this point

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Notice June 17, 2025

High GitHub App Error Rate

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 17, 2025, 07:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 17, 2025, 08:39 PM UTC
Duration
55m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 17, 2025, 07:43 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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

    We are experiencing an elevated error rate on GitHub API requests due to an upstream GitHub incident.

  3. resolved Jun 17, 2025, 08:39 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor June 12, 2025

Socket performance can be degraded due to ongoing outages with cloud providers

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 12, 2025, 06:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 12, 2025, 09:10 PM UTC
Duration
2h 23m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Jun 12, 2025, 06:47 PM UTC

    We are monitoring an issue with our upstream cloud providers that are having outages or degraded performance. This can impact the processing of the Github integration, Dashboard loading, and other features.

  2. resolved Jun 12, 2025, 09:10 PM UTC

    Our upstream cloud providers (Cloudflare, GCP, etc) have resolve their outages and operations should be back to normal.

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Minor June 3, 2025

Github PR Checks processing running slow

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 03, 2025, 09:44 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 03, 2025, 10:32 AM UTC
Duration
47m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jun 03, 2025, 09:44 AM UTC

    Engineering is investigating an issue that is causing the Socket Github App to process the Webhooks from Github very slowly. This could cause Socket PR checks to either get triggered after a long amount of time or Socket PR checks be in a pending state for longer than normal. times. We are actively investigating and working on fixing this.

  2. resolved Jun 03, 2025, 10:32 AM UTC

    This has been resolved and all checks should be performing as normal. We determined that the only impact was for the internal Socket org and customers should not have been impacted.

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Critical May 30, 2025

Github App is Down

Detected by Pingoru
May 30, 2025, 08:16 PM UTC
Resolved
May 30, 2025, 08:26 PM UTC
Duration
10m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating May 30, 2025, 08:16 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved May 30, 2025, 08:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical May 1, 2025

Dashboard Outage

Detected by Pingoru
May 01, 2025, 06:42 PM UTC
Resolved
May 02, 2025, 01:42 AM UTC
Duration
7h
Affected: Socket APISocket WebsiteSocket Dashboard
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating May 01, 2025, 06:42 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an incident for Socket that is causing an outage of the dashboard.

  2. investigating May 01, 2025, 07:01 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring May 01, 2025, 07:09 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved May 02, 2025, 01:42 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. The incident was caused by a DDoS attack on the Socket website. We are improving our DDoS mitigations to avoid future impact.

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Minor April 12, 2025

Unexpected Reset of Feature Flags Impacting User Experience

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 12, 2025, 01:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 12, 2025, 03:30 AM UTC
Duration
2h 18m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHubSocket Dashboard
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 12, 2025, 01:12 AM UTC

    We have identified an incident where internal feature flags were inadvertently reset, potentially affecting user experience across our platform. We are currently investigating the impact of this issue and are actively working to restore configuration to its correct state.

  2. resolved Apr 12, 2025, 03:30 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice April 9, 2025

Failing golang scans

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 09, 2025, 07:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 09, 2025, 07:44 PM UTC
Duration
30m
Affected: Socket APISocket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Apr 09, 2025, 07:14 PM UTC

    Golang scans are currently failing. We are investigating a fix. Other ecosystems are unaffected.

  2. resolved Apr 09, 2025, 07:44 PM UTC

    We have deployed a fix that restored the behavior of Golang scans.

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Minor April 7, 2025

Degraded site performance

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 07, 2025, 04:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 07, 2025, 05:32 PM UTC
Duration
55m
Affected: Socket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 07, 2025, 04:36 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Apr 07, 2025, 04:38 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Apr 07, 2025, 05:00 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Apr 07, 2025, 05:32 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical March 25, 2025

GitHub App Event Processing Outage

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 25, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 25, 2025, 09:29 PM UTC
Duration
9h 7m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 25, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue with our GitHub App event processing. Socket security checks for pull requests appear to be stalled.

  2. identified Mar 25, 2025, 02:24 PM UTC

    We identified an issue with long-running database transactions which eventually led to transaction cancellations, affecting our ability to process GitHub events. We have now restored normal operation and are looking into identifying the root cause for the problem.

  3. monitoring Mar 25, 2025, 08:52 PM UTC

    We have located the root cause of the problem and have started implementing various fixes to prevent this scenario from arising again.

  4. resolved Mar 25, 2025, 09:29 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor March 24, 2025

Issue with incorrect alert on some packages for middleware-user-agent

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 24, 2025, 03:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 24, 2025, 05:58 PM UTC
Duration
2h 5m
Affected: Socket for GitHubSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 24, 2025, 03:52 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this and have cleared it for know instances where a package has been incorrectly flagged.

  2. identified Mar 24, 2025, 04:00 PM UTC

    We've identified the issue and are working on deploying a fix

  3. monitoring Mar 24, 2025, 05:11 PM UTC

    We have deployed a fix and monitoring to ensure that the incorrectly marked packages are correctly marked.

  4. resolved Mar 24, 2025, 05:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major March 9, 2025

Degraded service for Socket.dev

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 09, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 09, 2025, 02:44 PM UTC
Duration
1h 31m
Affected: Socket APISocket WebsiteSocket DashboardPackage Pages
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Mar 09, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Mar 09, 2025, 02:17 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Mar 09, 2025, 02:26 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Mar 09, 2025, 02:44 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 24, 2025

Intermittent report timeouts

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 26, 2025, 02:12 AM UTC
Duration
1d 2h
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Feb 24, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue with some GitHub app check runs intermittently timing out on large repos. We are working on a fix.

  2. resolved Feb 26, 2025, 02:12 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 24, 2025

GitHub reports failing for select customers

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2025, 06:05 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 24, 2025, 07:49 PM UTC
Duration
1h 44m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Feb 24, 2025, 06:05 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating a high error rate for GitHub reports for select customers.

  2. monitoring Feb 24, 2025, 07:21 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Feb 24, 2025, 07:49 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major September 21, 2024

Socket Installations of new organizations are failing

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 21, 2024, 12:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 23, 2024, 09:04 PM UTC
Duration
2d 21h
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Sep 23, 2024, 04:21 PM UTC

    Socket has identified an issue that is causing new installations of the Socket Github App to fail. We are currently working on fix for this. Normal operations for currently installed customers are not impacted.

  2. resolved Sep 23, 2024, 09:04 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical August 8, 2024

Github Bot reports are not generating

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 08, 2024, 09:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 08, 2024, 10:08 PM UTC
Duration
22m
Affected: Socket for GitHub
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 08, 2024, 09:46 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Aug 08, 2024, 09:52 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and have implemented mitigation. Github Bot reports are being generated again.

  3. resolved Aug 08, 2024, 10:08 PM UTC

    We have implemented a fix and processing is back to normal.

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