Current answer
Censys experienced a major incident: Periodic query failures on Platform. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Sep 22, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Censys Platform Web UI
API
Supply Chain Intelligence
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
In the interest of ensuring ongoing system stability, Censys Engineering will leave Supply Chain Intelligence Beta collections in a frozen state overnight. We expect the next update to happen no later than 1 PM Sep 22nd.
Sep 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM UTC
Monitoring
Query performance on the Censys Platform has remained stable through the rest of the weekend.
Supply Chain Intelligence Beta features remain frozen. Users will see the last known list of assets in the UI, but will not see updates to their supply chain surface for now. Censys Engineering is working to determine next steps for re-enabling these features, and will provide an update by 5 PM ET today.
Supply Chain Intelligence Beta features remain frozen. Users will see the last known list of assets in the UI, but will not see updates to their supply chain surface for now. Censys Engineering is working to determine next steps for re-enabling these features, and will provide an update by 5 PM ET today.
Sep 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM UTC
Monitoring
Query issues on Censys Platform have been resolved. Supply Chain Intelligence functionality will remain in a partially disabled state through the weekend. We will provide further updates on Monday.
Sep 20, 2026 at 7:14 AM UTC
Identified
Censys Engineering has positively confirmed the cause of our issues and is rolling out a hotfix to resolve the issues. As a result of the hotfix, Supply Chain Intelligence Beta Customers will not see their supply chain changes populate in the Censys Platform UI until we restore that functionality on Monday.
Sep 20, 2026 at 6:24 AM UTC
Identified
Censys Engineering has identified a background process causing an unexpected amount of resource usage in our data layer. We are working to mitigate.
Sep 20, 2026 at 5:53 AM UTC
Investigating
Censys Engineering is investigating periodic query failures on the Censys Platform.
Sep 20, 2026 at 5:12 AM UTC
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