- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Down Index
- 23of 100
What to do
Check whether your product depends on RubyGems.org. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 3d 20h it lasted.
Anything that failed between 2026-05-12 08:54 UTC and 2026-05-16 05:12 UTC may need a replay.Subscribe to RubyGems.org's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
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Updates from RubyGems.org 3
- identified
Due to an ongoing DDoS attack against rubygems.org, we have temporarily disabled registrations. We'll share an update once we've made changes to protect legitimate users and prevent further abuse.
provider
- identified
The malicious spam activity against rubygems.org has stopped. The bot accounts responsible have been blocked and removed, and the 500+ malicious packages pushed during the attack have been yanked from the registry. Registrations will remain closed while we coordinate with Fastly to enable WAF protection and tighten rate limiting on account creation. We expect this to take two to three days. We'll post another update when we're closer being ready to re-enable user registrations. Gem installs and pushes for existing users are unaffected.
provider
- resolved
This incident has been resolved and we've re-enabled account registrations
provider
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-2751f96bcb
Is RubyGems.org still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-16 05:12 UTC. For RubyGems.org's live state, see https://down.guide/rubygems.
How long did it last?
3d 20h, from 2026-05-12 08:54 UTC to 2026-05-16 05:12 UTC, by the times RubyGems.org posted.
What caused it?
RubyGems.org hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
RubyGems.org's official status page, https://status.rubygems.org, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.