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Intermittent Censys API Failures

  • January 6, 2025
  • 6 replies
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Good morning,

 

We have been seeing intermittent failures with the Censys Search API all weekend, with a further stream of 500 failures this morning. A number of searches via the GUI are also returning 0 results. 

 

We have checked the Censys status board, which does not suggest that there are availability issues with the API. Please can you investigate. 

Best answer by MattK_Censys

Apologies for the additional disruption - all services should be restored now.

6 replies

MattK_Censys
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  • Censys Community Manager
  • January 7, 2025

Hi snkhan, sorry for the delay in replying. Search was having some issues yesterday but the team made some changes that should resolve them all - please let me know if you run into any more problems.


  • Author
  • New Participant
  • January 7, 2025

I am still seeing errors now -- combination of “The server is currently too busy to handle your request. Please try again later.” and “internal query returned a bad request error” errors.

 


MattK_Censys
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  • Censys Community Manager
  • January 7, 2025

Understood - sorry to hear you’re still running into issues. Our team is investigating the problem and has created a new issue on our Statuspage, which will update as soon as possible with additional updates.


MattK_Censys
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  • Censys Community Manager
  • January 9, 2025

Hey snkhan, this should be resolved now. Please let me know if you encounter any more errors.


  • Author
  • New Participant
  • January 13, 2025

And broken again, but at least acknowledged on your status page.


MattK_Censys
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  • Censys Community Manager
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  • January 15, 2025

Apologies for the additional disruption - all services should be restored now.