Outage in JW Player

Broadcast Live streams are not playing back or creating as expected

Resolved Major
January 14, 2025 - Started 5 months ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Outage Details

We are observing an issue where Broadcast Live streams are unable to receive a feed using RTMP. We are currently investigating this issue.
Components affected
JW Player Live Streaming
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 05:01PM

We have continued to see RTMP ingests work as expected within the EU region. Therefore, we are resolving this incident.

MONITORING 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 02:46PM

Streams within the EU region using the RTMP ingest format are now able to successfully connect to the streams.

We are continuing to monitor.

IDENTIFIED 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 01:04PM

We are continuing to investigate the issue of RTMP streams not working within the EU region. Other ingest methods are not affected.

Any new streams within Standalone or Broadcast Live using the RTMP ingest method will be unable to connect to the stream.

We would recommend attempting to use SRT over RTMP at this time.

IDENTIFIED 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 12:22PM

The US region has now been recovered and we can confirm that playback is working as expected and new streams can be created.

We are continuing to investigate the issue of RTMP streams not working within the EU region.

IDENTIFIED 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 11:57AM

We are currently working to restore the functioning of streams in the US region and restore the use of RTMP within the EU region of Broadcast Live.

We will continue to update the status as we have more information.

IDENTIFIED 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 11:46AM

We have now identified the issue and are working on the issue.

We will update this page as we obtain more information.

INVESTIGATING 5 months ago - at 01/14/2025 11:27AM

We are observing an issue where Broadcast Live streams are unable to receive a feed using RTMP.

We are currently investigating this issue.

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