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Past hCaptcha Incidents

Source: Official hCaptcha status page
Start Time (UTC)Incident Deep LinkImpactDurationDescription
2025-03-11 11:58 Inbound support email deliverability issues
none
0 second

Due to an issue at an upstream mail gateway, some inbound support emails may have been delayed or rejected earlie...

2025-02-19 22:49 Upstream CDN issues causing increased JS SDK load error rates
minor
1 hr, 32 mins

This incident has been resolved. As a reminder, please confirm that you are loading the JS SDK only via the reco...

2024-10-30 19:39 [Scheduled] Analytics Service Under Maintenance: Dashboard Stats Error Rates May Increase
maintenance
10 mins

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2024-06-20 19:58 Elevated P99 latency on some requests
none
25 mins

P99 latency has returned to norm as of 20:05 UTC.P99 latency has returned to norm as of 20:05 UTC.

2024-06-03 14:11 [Scheduled] Analytics service under maintenance (Enterprise)
maintenance
1 hr

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2024-06-03 00:44 [Scheduled] Analytics service under maintenance (Enterprise)
maintenance
1 hr

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2024-03-22 03:30 China region endpoints: elevated error rates
minor
0 second

At Mar 22 01:21:56 2024 GMT, some users of dedicated mainland China region endpoints experienced an expired certi...

2024-03-15 04:00 Reminder: Please ensure your server's root CA certificates are up to date
none
0 second

hCaptcha APIs use several SSL certificate authorities, maintaining both primary and backup certificates; our CAA ...

2024-01-19 16:56 [Scheduled] Updates to SAML Authentication for Enterprise Customers
maintenance
0 second

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2023-09-12 23:00 Elevated scores for some traffic
minor
0 second

Some sites consuming hCaptcha risk scores briefly experienced an elevated score distribution, affecting approxima...

2023-06-16 18:50 Dashboard under maintenance
maintenance
5 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2023-05-20 22:56 [Scheduled] Scheduled maintenance to accounts services
maintenance
34 mins

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2023-04-29 18:00 [Scheduled] Scheduled maintenance to accounts services
maintenance
4 hrs, 1 min

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2023-01-04 17:01 [Scheduled] Dashboard drill-down metrics upgrade in progress (Enterprise)
maintenance
1 hr

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2022-12-19 19:30 Elevated error rates on token verification
minor
0 second

Token verification endpoint error rates increased for several minutes on approximately 0.1% of sites during a tok...

2022-12-18 05:00 Elevated error rates for some mainland China users
minor
0 second

Error rates for some users located in mainland China and using dedicated regional routing endpoints were elevated...

2022-11-20 05:00 Certificate issue on some China endpoints
minor
0 second

Due to an upstream caching issue, some endpoints for mainland China users failed to update during certificate rot...

2022-11-12 17:30 Elevated challenge rate on some sites
none
0 second

Challenge rates were briefly elevated for some traffic segments, with a duration of between 0 and 20 minutes depe...

2022-11-08 08:30 Challenge images failed to load for some WAF customer sites
minor
0 second

A behavior change in an upstream deployment workflow caused some paths related to WAF customers' asset host paths...

2022-08-23 12:34 Elevated challenge rate for some users
minor
58 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2022-06-24 15:05 Dashboard login services under maintenance
minor
52 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2022-04-22 16:48 Dashboard SSO logins under maintenance
minor
9 mins

Maintenance is now complete.Maintenance is now complete.

2021-12-16 20:11 Elevated error rates
minor
0 second

From 12:11 PM PT through 12:42 PM PT, users in some regions experienced elevated error rates and timeouts due to ...

2021-08-30 23:30 Asset redirection, Elevated error rates on some image URIs
none
0 second

Users in some regions briefly experienced asset redirection leading to "too many redirect" messages or 500 errors...

2021-06-16 23:07 Dashboard under maintenance
critical
3 hrs, 14 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-05-21 19:10 Dashboard under maintenance
none
0 second

Free user accounts in some regions experienced elevated error rates on login while maintenance was performed.Free user accounts in some regions experienced elevated error rates on login while maintenance was performed.

2021-05-19 23:25 New account creation error rates may increase during dashboard maintenance
minor
9 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-05-05 20:25 Elevated error rates on new signups
minor
7 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-04-22 06:19 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
52 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-04-15 17:01 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
24 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-04-01 21:57 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
35 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-03-30 23:42 Elevated error rates on some requests in Brazil
minor
1 hr, 31 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-02-27 21:46 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
4 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2021-01-21 05:00 Elevated latencies on some requests
minor
0 second

Latencies (but not error rates) increased on requests in some regions, primarily on free accounts.Latencies (but not error rates) increased on requests in some regions, primarily on free accounts.

2021-01-19 21:30 Elevated error rates on siteverify
minor
0 second

Approximately 0.009% of requests to siteverify with some challenge modes received an `invalid-passcode` response,...

2020-12-23 04:59 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
42 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-12-17 21:35 Dashboard updates may take longer than usual
minor
2 hrs, 49 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-09-15 18:06 Dashboard under maintenance
minor
7 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-09-13 02:37 Sitekey creation temporarily paused for free users during dashboard maintenance
none
7 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-09-10 01:38 [Scheduled] Database migration
maintenance
10 mins

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

2020-09-02 22:20 Dashboard under maintenance
maintenance
1 min

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-08-22 02:04 Dashboard under maintenance
maintenance
6 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-07-01 15:02 Sitekey settings changes slow to update
minor
2 hrs, 6 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-06-08 20:00 Some files served with missing content-type for some users
minor
0 second

~0.1% of users received pre-compressed files without an appropriate content-type header for several minutes, caus...

2020-05-22 21:40 Sitekey config changes and stats updating slower than usual
minor
3 hrs, 15 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-05-21 15:17 Dashboard under maintenance
major
1 hr, 29 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-05-15 13:20 Dashboard under maintenance
none
18 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-05-05 19:00 EU region: siteverify slow for some Free/Publisher sites
minor
0 second

~0.13% of verification traffic to free sites saw increased latency and error rates for several minutes as our EU ...

2020-04-24 15:57 Signups paused
minor
49 mins

This incident has been resolved.This incident has been resolved.

2020-04-23 17:00 [Scheduled] Database upgrade
maintenance
30 mins

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.The scheduled maintenance has been completed.