API requests failing/timing out
Aiven API requests fail or time out. The outage started at 11:59 UTC on 5 November 2026 and is ongoing. Aiven reports the issue as identified. The issue is mitigated, and the engineering team works on a permanent fix.
State
Identified
Started
Ongoing for
59 min
Worst impact
Notice
Timeline
2 updatesInvestigating
55 min 94%
Identified
4 min 6%
Updates
Times in UTCAs posted by Aiven
The issue has been mitigated, and our Engineering team is working on a permanent fix.
You may experience timeouts and 500 errors when accessing Aiven APIs. We're currently investigating API performance to mitigate the issue.
Aiven in the last 90 days
Full historyIncidents in 90 days
10
Days with an incident
26
Median duration
9 h 1 min
This incident
89% shorter than the median
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