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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.
May 2026
Documentation Outage
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
We are currently experiencing an issue with our public documentation site due to an outage affecting ReadMe, our documentation hosting provider. This issue does not impact product availability, APIs, or platform functionality.
Inventory updates are delayed
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
Censys Engineering has mitigated the issue causing Attack Surface Management inventory updates from association and discovery to be delayed.
We are monitoring jobs and expect that all inventory updates will land within ~5 hours.
investigating
Censys Engineering has detected an issue that will result in Attack Surface Management inventory updates from association and discovery being delayed. We are actively investigating the underlying cause.
Virtual Hosts Snapshot did not generate for 2026-05-05
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
The snapshot upload is continuing. The virtual hosts snapshot should become available to customers overnight.
monitoring
The replacement snapshot for 2026-05-05 has completed and is being uploaded to our cloud storage for customer access. We will update here once the snapshot is available.
identified
Censys Engineering is making forward progress on a mitigation for the underlying cause of the missed snapshot. We hope to be able to begin building the final snapshot within the next few hours.
identified
The underlying cause of the missed snapshot has been identified. The engineering team continues to work toward a resolution.
investigating
The virtual hosts snapshot for 2026-05-05 for Censys Data Downloads customers is delayed. Censys Engineering is investigating. We will update this status page when we have more information on when to expect the snapshot.
Other datasets generated as usual for 2026-05-05. Only virtual hosts was affected.
Natural Language Search Query Generation Disruption
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
We’ve identified the issue and deployed a fix. Query generation is now functional, though performance is currently slower than expected.
identified
We are currently experiencing an issue where natural language inputs are not being converted into search queries. This affects both the search bar and the Censys Assistant, preventing users from generating queries using plain English. Our team is actively investigating and working to restore functionality.
Data Downloads are Unavailable
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
Our upstream provider has identified and mitigated the issue.
investigating
An upstream provider is investigating a Sev. 1 incident. We are in communication with the provider and will continue to provide updates as they become available.
investigating
The Censys Data Downloads product is currently returning HTTP 403 errors for all download requests. Censys Engineering is engaged and investigating.
April 2026
Intermittent errors from Platform and Search
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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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.
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.
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.
March 2026
Censys Search Application Unreachable
majorSource not attested
Last archived state: resolved
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monitoring
Censys Search is once again available. We are moving to monitoring the service.
investigating
The Legacy Search application is currently unreachable. We are investigating.
