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.
Posted Apr 09, 2026 - 15:48 EDT
Update
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.
Posted Apr 09, 2026 - 12:54 EDT
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.
Posted Apr 09, 2026 - 11:28 EDT
This incident affected: Censys Platform (Censys Platform Web UI, API) and Censys Search (Search Index, WebUI).