# URnetwork outages

> Every outage on URnetwork: when it started and ended, what people saw, what
> went wrong, and what we changed, newest first. Times are UTC.
> https://ur.io/outages

## Oct 21 – 25, 2026: Runaway connection churn filled the database disk and took the platform down

A provider-quality filter switched itself on at its default date and emptied two selection pools, and our hosted proxy service began churning through short-lived connections faster than the database could serve them. For two days connections failed or stalled for many people while database storage grew with the churn, until on Oct 23 a logging fault filled the disk and the platform was down for 16 hours, then 6 more for the storage expansion. That evening the same churn jammed payment reservations, and for about five hours apps could find providers but not send traffic.

- Started Oct 21 00:00 UTC; ended Oct 25 03:44 UTC, 99 h 44 min. Worst level: Full outage.
- https://ur.io/outages/2026-10-21 ([markdown](https://ur.io/outages-md/2026-10-21.md))

## Oct 19, 2026: Stalled database connection pools took providers offline

The pools that connect our servers to the database stalled and could not refill. A cleanup job then mistook the stalled servers for dead ones and removed them, and 97% of providers dropped off the network for almost three hours.

- Started Oct 19 09:56 UTC; ended Oct 19 19:12 UTC, 9 h 16 min. Worst level: Full outage.
- https://ur.io/outages/2026-10-19 ([markdown](https://ur.io/outages-md/2026-10-19.md))

## Oct 10 – 13, 2026: Three days of database overload, and the failures it set off

Our main database ran at its limit for three days, and every timeout added retries and more load. While it was overloaded, four separate failures hit users: a new connection check that disconnected healthy providers, a load-balancer collapse, a key rotation that broke new sign-ins, and a stalled connection pooler.

- Started Oct 10 00:22 UTC; ended Oct 13 08:41 UTC, 80 h 19 min. Worst level: Full outage.
- https://ur.io/outages/2026-10-10 ([markdown](https://ur.io/outages-md/2026-10-10.md))