mastodon.social - DDoS attack – Incident details

All systems operational

DDoS attack

Resolved
Degraded performance
Started about 2 years agoLasted about 5 hours

Affected

Website & API

Degraded performance from 4:21 PM to 9:50 PM

Background queues

Degraded performance from 4:21 PM to 9:50 PM

Media storage

Degraded performance from 4:21 PM to 9:50 PM

Streaming API

Degraded performance from 4:21 PM to 9:50 PM

Updates
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    We implemented a fix and we expect the queues to catch up soon.

  • Update
    Update

    We're experiencing additional issues with background queues. Home feeds, notifications, and other things that involve asynchronous processing may be severely delayed. We're working on mitigating this issue.

  • Identified
    Identified

    We are under a massive DDoS attack. We are working together with Fastly to mitigate it.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    mastodon.social is currently unavailable.

    We are currently investigating this incident.