Current answer
Censys experienced a minor incident: Searches are failing. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Nov 3, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Censys Platform Web UI
API
Inventory Search
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
The Censys Engineering team has observed the system through several hourly periods of high and low load without incident. We're going to leave this incident in monitoring overnight, and continue observing in the morning.
Nov 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM UTC
Identified
Censys Engineering is once again seeing intermittent issues with Censys Platform and ASM completing searches. We've identified the cause of the issue and are working on prevention mechanisms. Until those prevention mechanisms are fully in place, we expect degraded performance completing searches.
Nov 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC
Monitoring
We've identified the cause and the system is operating normally. Censys Engineering is continuing to monitor the issue to ensure it does not recur.
Nov 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM UTC
Investigating
Searches are failing across multiple products. Censys Engineering is investigating. This is affecting the Censys Platform and ASM Inventory pages.
Nov 2, 2026 at 7:26 PM UTC
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