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Red Hat Connect Major Outage - Investigating

Partial outage Lasted 21m · started · Red Hat's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Partner Container Certification Workflow, Partner Acceleration Desk, Partner Account Management, Partner Portal, Partner Subscriptions
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Root cause

The Partner Certification Team investigated the alerts and identified the undocumented certificate rotation as the root cause of the incident.

Category: Certificate expiry

Read the postmortem

Updates from Red Hat 4

  1. identified

    We are currently experiencing an outage affecting the Red Hat Partner Connect. Our teams are actively investigating the issue and working to restore full functionality as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience. Updates will be provided as more information becomes available.

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  2. investigating

    We are currently investigating this issue.

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  3. resolved

    Issue has resolved Hydra has updated the certificates which caused our outage in the partner portal. we have updated the certificates configs in our application in alignment to it.

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  4. postmortem

    Executive Summary A certificate update by the backend team triggered automated system alerts this morning. The Partner Certification Team investigated the alerts and identified the undocumented certificate rotation as the root cause of the incident. Detection & Investigation: The Partner Certification Team detected the issue via automated alerts. The team immediately initiated debugging procedures and successfully isolated the certificate update as the underlying cause. Recommended Action Items: Implement a mandatory communication protocol and sign-off process between the platform team and the Partner Certification Team for all future certificate rotations. Review monitoring systems to ensure certificate mismatches trigger immediate alerts during deployment windows, rather than the following morning.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-1e8336345c

Is Red Hat still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-25 05:22 UTC. For Red Hat's live state, see https://down.guide/red-hat.

How long did it last?

21m, from 2026-09-25 05:01 UTC to 2026-09-25 05:22 UTC, by the times Red Hat posted.

What was affected?

Red Hat named Partner Container Certification Workflow, Partner Acceleration Desk, Partner Account Management, Partner Portal and 1 more.

What caused it?

Certificate expiry. Red Hat wrote: "The Partner Certification Team investigated the alerts and identified the undocumented certificate rotation as the root cause of the incident." The postmortem: https://stspg.io/knbx6dxc8dtr

Where does this come from?

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