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Canonical Outage History

Every past Canonical outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 1411 Canonical outages since November 2023. The 405 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major May 2, 2026

May 2026: "assets.ubuntu.com" is Down

Detected May 2, 2026 8:53 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 9:08 PM CST · Duration 16 minutes

Canonical's assets.ubuntu.com service experienced a major outage and was completely down. The incident affected access to Ubuntu assets and resources hosted on that domain. The service was restored after 16 minutes of downtime.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: launchpad.net - Custom maintenance

Detected May 2, 2026 5:52 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 10:00 PM CST · Duration about 4 hours

Canonical's launchpad.net service experienced a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that required traffic restrictions to be implemented as a protective measure. The incident was classified as minor and affected the launchpad.net platform for approximately 4.1 hours. The service was restored after the DoS attack was mitigated and traffic restrictions were lifted.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: ppa.launchpad.net - Custom maintenance

Detected May 2, 2026 5:52 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 10:28 PM CST · Duration about 5 hours

Canonical's ppa.launchpad.net experienced a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that required severe traffic restrictions to be implemented as a protective measure. The incident lasted 4.6 hours and was classified as minor impact. The service was restored by maintaining the traffic restrictions and implementing alert overrides to manage the situation.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: ppa.launchpad.net - Custom maintenance

Detected May 2, 2026 5:12 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 5:48 PM CST · Duration 36 minutes

Canonical's ppa.launchpad.net experienced a 36-minute service disruption due to severe traffic restrictions implemented during a DoS attack mitigation. Users were unable to access the PPA service during this period. The issue was resolved by implementing alert overrides and adjusting the traffic restrictions.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: launchpad.net - Custom maintenance

Detected May 2, 2026 5:12 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 5:48 PM CST · Duration 36 minutes

Canonical's launchpad.net service experienced a DoS attack that required severely restricting traffic as a mitigation measure, lasting 36 minutes. Users were unable to access ppa.launchpad.net during this period. The incident was resolved through traffic restrictions and alert overrides.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: Every weekend

Detected May 2, 2026 12:23 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 12:31 PM CST · Duration 8 minutes

Canonical performed scheduled weekend maintenance on monitoring systems that lasted 8 minutes. During this time, users experienced failures when trying to fetch Firefox packages from the Ubuntu PPA repository, with connection errors preventing package downloads. The maintenance was completed as planned with monitoring alerts suppressed during the weekend window.

Major May 2, 2026

May 2026: Component "ppa.launchpad.net" and a few other components are Down

Detected May 2, 2026 12:14 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 5:12 PM CST · Duration about 5 hours

Canonical experienced a major service outage affecting launchpad.net and ppa.launchpad.net components for 5 hours. The incident rendered these core Launchpad services completely unavailable to users. The services have since been restored to normal operation.

Minor May 2, 2026

May 2026: Every weekend

Detected May 2, 2026 12:12 PM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 12:19 PM CST · Duration 7 minutes

Canonical performed scheduled maintenance on monitoring systems to prevent weekend alerts. The maintenance was classified as a minor service incident and lasted 7 minutes. The work was completed successfully to ensure monitoring systems would not generate alerts during weekend periods.

Major May 2, 2026

May 2026: "ppa.launchpad.net" is Down

Detected May 2, 2026 11:11 AM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 11:39 AM CST · Duration 28 minutes

The ppa.launchpad.net service experienced a major outage lasting 28 minutes, preventing users from connecting to the service. Users reported being unable to run `sudo apt update` commands in Ubuntu for several days, indicating the impact may have been longer than the official incident duration. The service has since been restored.

Major May 2, 2026

May 2026: "ppa.launchpad.net" is Down

Detected May 2, 2026 4:27 AM CST · Resolved May 2, 2026 11:11 AM CST · Duration about 7 hours

The ppa.launchpad.net service experienced a major outage lasting 6.7 hours. The service was completely down during this period, preventing users from accessing Personal Package Archives. The incident was resolved after 6.7 hours of downtime.