A security compromise at Northflank has triggered major outages across vital platform layers, impairing networking, certificates, and addons. Operational tooling has also been crippled, leaving customer builds, jobs, logs, and metrics severely disrupted. In contrast to the backend infrastructure collapse, the main marketing site and documentation pages have maintained a 100.0% uptime.
Networking - Major outage
Certificates - Major outage
Services - Major outage
Addons - Major outage
Jobs - Major outage
Builds - Major outage
Logs and Metrics - Major outage
Northflank App - Operational
99.82% uptime
Northflank API - Operational
100.0% uptime
Marketing Site - Operational
100.0% uptime
Documentation - Operational
100.0% uptime
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