RIPE Network Coordination Centre incident

Issue with scheduling some RIPE Atlas measurements

Resolved after 4 hours 17 minutes, affecting RIPE Atlas, on August 18, 2026.

resolved Aug 18, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC

A fix to an internal backend was deployed at around 13:30 CEST and the issue has not reappeared since. We are working on extra monitoring to prevent issues of this type from affecting measurement scheduling in the future.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 18, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC
Duration
4h 17m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

Affected components

RIPE Atlas

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

    Aug 18, 12:27 CEST Identified - There are currently issues assigning probes to measurements with anything other than "worldwide" area selection. We have identified the root cause and are working on a fix.

  2. identified Aug 18, 2026, 10:27 AM UTC

    There are currently issues assigning probes to measurements with anything other than "worldwide" area selection. We have identified the root cause and are working on a fix.

  3. resolved Aug 18, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC

    A fix to an internal backend was deployed at around 13:30 CEST and the issue has not reappeared since. We are working on extra monitoring to prevent issues of this type from affecting measurement scheduling in the future.

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