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Sync Trigger Failure

Partial outage Lasted 5h 48m · started · Census's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Sync Engine
Down Index
38of 100

What to do

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Root cause

We have identified the issue which has been caused by an internal system certificate update that was not fully applied across all of our older infrastructure.

Category: Certificate expiry

Read the postmortem

Updates from Census 4

  1. investigating

    We have identified an issue preventing the triggering of syncs for some users and are currently investigating.

    provider

  2. identified

    We have identified the issue which has been caused by an internal system certificate update that was not fully applied across all of our older infrastructure. Because of this, some internal service-to-service communication was interrupted, which prevented reason syncs from being triggered as expected.

    provider

  3. monitoring

    The system certificate has been updated now and it should resolve the sync trigger issue. We are currently monitoring the sync trigger run.

    provider

  4. resolved

    Issue has been resolved now and sync trigger run are working fine now as expected.

    provider

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-9f8fabe2ec

Is Census still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-11-02 21:16 UTC. For Census's live state, see https://down.guide/census.

How long did it last?

5h 48m, from 2026-11-02 15:28 UTC to 2026-11-02 21:16 UTC, by the times Census posted.

What was affected?

Census named Sync Engine.

What caused it?

Certificate expiry. Census wrote: "We have identified the issue which has been caused by an internal system certificate update that was not fully applied across all of our older infrastructure." The postmortem: https://stspg.io/whnpyp880tmr

Where does this come from?

Census's official status page, https://status.getcensus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.