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Outage in Whalebone

Management API outage

Resolved Major
January 02, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted about 11 hours
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Incident Report

We have detected an outage affecting the **Management API**, which is used for **provisioning new retail subscribers **and for device management. The API is currently returning the following error:
`"error":"invalid combination of access key and secret key".`

As a result, the following actions may fail or be delayed:

* Creating new subscribers
* Creating new devices
* Updating filtering policies

The Retail API is primarily used by **telco operators and larger ISPs** offering B2C services.

At this time, the issue appears to be related to a **hardware failure at our infrastructure provider**. We are actively working on a fix and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
about 1 month ago - at 01/02/2026 03:52PM

We are reopening this incident due to renewed intermittent errors on the Management API (500 responses/timeouts). This correlates with an ongoing incident at our infrastructure provider (Exoscale) impacting compute in CH-DK-2, causing instability/unavailability of some of our instances.
We are actively rescheduling affected services onto healthy infrastructure.
Next update in 30 minutes or sooner if fully restored.

about 1 month ago - at 01/02/2026 11:59AM

The incident has been mitigated and services are operational.
As part of the mitigation, we updated the DNS record for api.whalebone.io to point to a new Elastic IP.

**Important (IP allowlisting/firewalls):** api.whalebone.io now resolves to 159.100.248.48.
If your environment uses IP allowlisting, please allowlist 159.100.248.48 to restore/maintain access.

about 1 month ago - at 01/02/2026 10:42AM

Our infrastructure provider (Exoscale) is investigating a compute partial outage [(their status page)](https://exoscalestatus.com/incidents/217987), which is impacting one of our host. While Exoscale works on host recovery, we are executing a mitigation plan to restore the affected component on an alternate healthy host to unblock authentication and recover the Management API (provisioning + device management).
Next update in 30 minutes or earlier if service is restored.

about 1 month ago - at 01/02/2026 08:28AM

We have detected an outage affecting the **Management API**, which is used for **provisioning new retail subscribers **and for device management. The API is currently returning the following error:
`"error":"invalid combination of access key and secret key".`

As a result, the following actions may fail or be delayed:

* Creating new subscribers
* Creating new devices
* Updating filtering policies

The Retail API is primarily used by **telco operators and larger ISPs** offering B2C services.

At this time, the issue appears to be related to a **hardware failure at our infrastructure provider**. We are actively working on a fix and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

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