Intermittent errors from Platform and Search

Major Impact Monitoring Ongoing April 9, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Identified Identified Monitoring

Incident Timeline

Monitoring
Censys is continuing to monitor for ongoing customer impact, but none has been observed for several hours at this point. We will continue monitoring for the remainder of the day, but at this point our systems are considered operational.
Apr 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM UTC
Identified
Censys Engineering is continuing to remediate degraded behavior in search queries. We're beginning to see backend systems recover, and are continuing to isolate root causes so we can be confident the system remains stable.
Apr 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM UTC
Identified
Censys Engineering has identified an issue that will cause intermittent errors for customers when running searches on Censys Search and Censys Platform. Censys Platform, in particular, will report correctly formed queries as invalid.

We've identified unexpected, increased load on backend systems as the cause and are working to remediate the issue.
Apr 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC
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