Outage in Particle

Connectivity Outage

Resolved Major
January 16, 2025 - Started 20 days ago - Lasted about 8 hours
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Outage Details

Particle is investigating reports of a rolling connectivity outage; update on status is incoming.
Components affected
Particle Cellular Connectivity
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 10:51PM

Particle has assessed a complete and sustained return of traffic to normal levels. We will continue to monitor the recovery closely, but at this moment will mark the incident resolved. We will append an RCA to this incident notification at the moment we receive it from the impacted provider.

MONITORING 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 09:55PM

Particle has observed a significant reduction in the reconnection issue affecting EtherSIM devices. We have received word from our impacted partner that their resolution work is finishing in a satisfactory manner. We will keep a very close eye on the stability of the system for the next 60 minutes before making any further assessments.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 08:50PM

Improvement is still ongoing, we've seen a 60% reduction in problematic connections with the impacted network provider over the past 90 minutes and we are seeing data throughput volumes converge to normal levels. The incident remains, nonetheless, at our highest stage of escalation. We will provide another update as progress continues.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 07:48PM

Particle is continuing to observe an improvement in connectivity conditions. To reiterate, an issue experience by one of our network providers has caused an interruption in EtherSIM traffic, specifically interrupting a device's ability to reconnect to the Cloud. We will continue to post live updates as the situation improves.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 07:32PM

Particle is beginning to observe a steady drop in failed reconnect attempts, pointing to progress being made with respect to resolution.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 06:38PM

Work continues to rectify this issue, no affirmative ETA as of yet. To reiterate, this issue affects EtherSIM devices primarily in the US, specifically during the reconnect process.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 04:42PM

Work is ongoing to rectify this issue, which we have escalated with the highest priority. We will continue to provide updates with regularity.

IDENTIFIED 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 03:33PM

The issue has been identified as a network infrastructure issue. Our partners are enaged in pursuing a fix. We will post an update ASAP. Only a subset of EtherSIM devices are impacted, specifically those with short reconnection timelines.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 03:19PM

Particle has identified an increase in handshake failures, impacting devices that are attempting to reconnect. We are actively investigating with the highest priority and escalating to our cellular partners.

INVESTIGATING 20 days ago - at 01/16/2025 03:03PM

Particle is investigating reports of a rolling connectivity outage; update on status is incoming.

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