- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Components
- Sync Engine
- Down Index
- 38of 100
What to do
Check whether you use Census Sync Engine. Check your stack
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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 postmortemUpdates from Census 4
- investigating
We have identified an issue preventing the triggering of syncs for some users and are currently investigating.
provider
- 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
- 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
- resolved
Issue has been resolved now and sync trigger run are working fine now as expected.
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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.