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73.8%of 80 verified observed days had no reported provider issue
90-Day Trend
Dashed calendar markers below identify legacy observations whose source-at-observation was not recorded.
Monthly Status Summary
Month
Issue-free days
Days Tracked
Days with issues
October 2026
58.1%
31
13
September 2026
80%
30
6
This percentage summarizes normalized provider-status observations by calendar day. It is not duration-based, component-weighted, or contractual uptime. See the methodology and limitations.
Recorded Daily Status (Last 91 Days)
Aug 17Today
Legacy observation Operational Degraded Partial Outage Major Outage Maintenance No Data
We have applied a mitigation and the affected API endpoints are recovering.
We are continuing to monitor the services to confirm stability
investigating
We are investigating an issue affecting several API endpoints.
Our team has identified the likely cause and is actively working to restore service. We will post an update as soon as more information is available.
investigating
We are investigating an issue affecting several API endpoints. Ranges, lookups, and timelines are currently failing or timing out. Other API endpoints are not affected.
Our team has identified the likely cause and is actively working to restore service. We will post an update as soon as more information is available.
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.
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.
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.
investigating
Searches are failing across multiple products. Censys Engineering is investigating. This is affecting the Censys Platform and ASM Inventory pages.
Customers may see a temporary decrease in ASM web entity counts following a service issue over the weekend. The issue is resolved, no action is needed, and we expect counts to recover starting October 20.
ASM risks are incorrectly being triggered due to missing public key information for some certificates. We are now fixing the incorrect records.
investigating
ASM risks are incorrectly being triggered due to missing public key information for some certificates. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates as we learn more.
September 2026
Internal networking outage in Censys Platform and ASM
We have resolved the networking issues impacting Platform queries. Query functionality has been restored, and we are monitoring the system to ensure continued stability.
investigating
We are investigating an issue impacting queries in the Censys Platform. Some users may experience errors when running queries.
investigating
We are investigating an issue impacting queries in the Censys Platform. Some users may experience errors when running queries.
investigating
We are investigating an issue impacting queries in the Censys Platform. Some users may experience errors when running queries.
Censys Platform Web UIAPISupply Chain Intelligence
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.
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.
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.
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.
identified
Censys Engineering has identified a background process causing an unexpected amount of resource usage in our data layer. We are working to mitigate.
investigating
Censys Engineering is investigating periodic query failures on the Censys Platform.
Monitoring — Systems have been restored and Engineers will continue to monitor
monitoring
Identified — We're aware that some AI-assisted features, including query generation and risk summaries, are currently experiencing degraded performance or may be temporarily unavailable. Core platform functionality remains fully
operational. Our team has identified the cause and is actively working on remediation. We'll post an update as soon as service is restored.
identified
Identified — We're aware that some AI-assisted features, including query generation and risk summaries, are currently experiencing degraded performance or may be temporarily unavailable. Core platform functionality remains fully
operational. Our team has identified the cause and is actively working on remediation. We'll post an update as soon as service is restored.
Legacy Incident Archive
17 archived records restored. These records predate source-at-observation attestation. They are shown as historical ServiceAlert records only and do not establish a provider-reported incident, resolution, duration, or current active state.
August 2026
Platform Intermittent 500s
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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Censys Platform Web UIAccounts Web UI
monitoring
Censys Engineering has deployed another fix to alleviate the login slowness. All systems appear to be working as expected, though we will continue to monitor.
identified
Censys Engineering has identified additional contention now causing login delays. A fix is being worked on.
monitoring
Censys Engineering has implemented a fix for the 500 errors that were showing up. We're continuing to monitor throughout the afternoon.
investigating
Censys Engineering is investing intermittent 500s when searching Platform.
July 2026
Asset details performance degradation
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
We have implemented changes to address the performance issues and are now monitoring asset detail performance.
investigating
We are looking into a degradation of performance when fetching asset details.
ASM Assistant Unavailable
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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identified
We have identified the issue affecting the ASM Assistant and are working to resolve the problem.
investigating
We are investigating an issue affecting the ASM Assistant where users may encounter a technical error when attempting to create a new chat
Censys Platform Query Assistant Unavailable
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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investigating
We are investigating an issue affecting the Censys Platform Query Assistant. Users may be unable to generate Censys Query Language (CenQL) queries from natural language using the search bar.
This issue is limited to the Query Assistant functionality. Existing CenQL queries and standard search functionality continue to operate as expected.
Our team is actively working to restore full functionality and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
June 2026
Platform Censys Assistant Unavailable
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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identified
We have identified the cause of the issue affecting the in-platform Chat Assistant. The service is currently unavailable due to an upstream AI model availability issue. We are implementing a fix to restore functionality and will provide another update as soon as possible.
Risk Instance Generation Delays
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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identified
We have identified the root cause of the issue affecting Risk Instance generation. Certain risk types were inadvertently disabled globally, preventing affected Risk Instances from being generated. We are currently implementing a fix and will provide additional updates as remediation progresses.
Delays Processing ASM Rescans
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
We identified an issue causing delays in ASM rescan processing for some customers.
To help alleviate the delays, we have increased system capacity and are closely monitoring performance. Rescans may continue to take longer than expected while processing catches up.
We will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as necessary.
Delayed ASM Asset Inventory Updates
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
We are currently experiencing delays in ASM asset updates. The underlying issue has been identified and resolved, and processing has resumed.
However, a significant backlog accumulated while the issue was active. As a result, asset updates may continue to be delayed for several hours as we work through the backlog and return processing to normal levels.
No data has been lost, and queued updates will be processed automatically. We are actively monitoring recovery progress and will provide ad...
May 2026
Authentication Issues
criticalSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
Censys Engineering has resolved the issue. Authentication for Censys ASM and Censys Search is now working as expected. Censys Engineering will continue to monitor throughout the day.
identified
Censys Engineering has identified the issue and is working toward resolution.
investigating
Censys Engineering is investigating an issue with authenticating to Censys ASM and Censys Search. Authentication to Censys Platform is working as expected.
Multiple products unable to run searches
criticalSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
Censys Engineering has made additional improvements today to increase data ingestion rates, and the backlog continues to clear at an accelerated pace. Search index and Collections data are being actively updated and are approaching normal levels. Censys Engineering will continue to monitor progress and provide a final update once the backlog has been fully cleared and all services have returned to normal.
monitoring
Censys Engineering has completed the required infrastructure changes and search functionality is operating normally across Censys Platform and Censys Search. The search index is now being actively updated as we work through the remaining backlog. Data Downloads and Collections will resume updating as the backlog is cleared. Censys Engineering will continue to monitor and provide additional updates as the index fully catches up.
monitoring
Censys Engineering continues to work toward full resolution. Search functionality remains available across Censys Platform and Censys Search, however search index data is not currently being updated at a normal rate, meaning results may not reflect the most recent data. Collections are also not updating during this time.
Additionally, Data Downloads will be impacted beginning tomorrow morning. No data will be lost — any snapshots missed will be available in the following build. Censys Engi...
monitoring
Censys Engineering continues to work toward full resolution. While search functionality remains available across Censys Platform and Censys Search, search index data is not currently being updated at a normal rate, meaning results may not reflect the most recent data. Collections are also not updating during this time. Engineering is actively working to complete infrastructure changes required to restore normal indexing capacity and will provide additional updates as they become available.
monitoring
Censys ASM, Censys Search, and Censys Platform are now operational and returning searches at a normal rate as all systems fully recover. Censys Engineering will continue to monitor and make performance tuning adjustments throughout the day.
monitoring
Censys Engineering has resolved the issue. Censys ASM, Censys Search, and Censys Platform are now operational and returning searches at a degraded rate as all systems fully recover. Censys Engineering will continue to monitor and provide additional updates throughout the day.
identified
Censys Engineering has identified the issue and is working toward resolution. Censys ASM, Censys Search, and Censys Platform are slowly starting to return some searches. Censys Engineering will provide additional updates throughout the day.
investigating
Censys ASM, Censys Search, and Censys Platform continue to be unable to run searches. Censys Engineering continues to investigate the issue and narrowing in on the root cause. We will be posting updates throughout the day as we have them.
investigating
Censys ASM, Censys Search, and Censys Platform continue to be unable to run searches. Censys Engineering continues to investigate the issue and attempt to isolate the root cause. We will be posting updates throughout the day as we have them.
Direct IP lookups in Censys Platform and Censys Search are continuing to work normally during this outage.
investigating
We are investigating an issue causing queries to fail and collections to be unresponsive.
