SignPath

Status

All systems are operational

Planned maintenance

No maintenance planned.

    Past incidents and maintenance

    • Nov. 27, 2024

      HSM signing interruptions

      Temporary HSM network performance degradation led to automatic service restart escalation.

      • Delayed signing request processing.
      • Possible client-side timeouts concerning hash signing.
      • DPoD Cloud HSM and software certificates were not affected.
    • Nov. 6, 2024

      GitHub.com integration unavailable

      Using the SignPath GitHub Actions submit-signing-request action did not work. (A globally scoped ID value has passed the max-int boundary at GitHub.com.)

    • Oct. 13, 2024

      HTTPS gateway maintenance

      Planned maintenance for the gateway that handles incoming network traffic.

      • During this time range inbound requests may fail, including REST API, Web UI, connectors and and crypto providers.
      • Processing of accepted signing requests will not be affected.
    • Sep. 11, 2024

      DPoD services unavailable

      For customers using Thales DPoD Cloud HSM, completion of signing requests was delayed until after the outage and synchronous hash-based signing failed. (Read more)

    • Aug. 07, 2024

      HSM infrastructure maintenance

      Planned maintenance for SignPath HSM cluster’s infrastructure.

      • Slightly longer processing times for signing requests including hash signing
      • Software certificates and Thales DPoD Cloud HSM certificates were not affected
    • Jun. 19, 2024

      HSM maintenance

      Planned maintenance for SignPath’s HSM cluster.

      • Disabled Creating/importing certificates
      • Slightly longer processing times for signing requests including hash signing
      • Software certificates and Thales DPoD Cloud HSM certificates were not affected
    • Jun. 5, 2024

      HSM maintenance

      Planned maintenance for SignPath’s HSM cluster.

      • Limited certificate management (disabled certificate creation/import), expect slightly longer signing request processing times and hash signing response times.
      • Software certificates and Thales DPoD Cloud HSM certificates were not affected.
    • Apr. 23, 2024

      DPoD services unavailable

      For customers using Thales DPoD Cloud HSM, completion of signing requests was delayed until after the outage and synchronous hash-based signing failed. (Read more)

    • Apr. 18, 2024

      DPoD services unavailable

      For customers using Thales DPoD Cloud HSM, completion of signing requests was delayed until after the outage and synchronous hash-based signing failed. (Read more)

    • Feb. 24, 2024

      Infrastructure problems

      One node dealing with certificates on the software key store experienced network problems for signing operations. Signing requests with HSM-based keys were not affected.

    • Feb. 22, 2024

      DPoD services unavailable

      For customers using Thales DPoD Cloud HSM, completion of signing requests was delayed until after the outage. (Read more)

    • Feb. 19, 2024

      DPoD services unreachable

      For customers using Thales DPoD Cloud HSM, completion of signing requests was delayed until after the outage. (The origin of the connectivity problems could not be established, additional network probes added.)

    • Feb. 1, 2024

      Processing errors

      Some signing requests were not processed after an application update.

    • Feb. 1, 2024

      DPoD signing errors

      Failed signing requests for some customers using dedicated Thales DPoD Cloud HSM instances (DNS issue during DPoD maintenance). (Read more)

    • Jan. 11, 2024

      Thales DPoD maintenance windows

      For all customers using their own Thales DPoD Cloud HSMs hosted in the EU, signing operations may briefly be interrupted due to maintenance operations by Thales.

    • Nov. 26, 2023

      Infrastructure problems

      Problems in the database backend caused temporarily outdated lists and reports.

    • Nov. 8, 2023

      Problem importing PFX files into the HSM key store

      Importing private keys from PFX files into the HSM key store did not work (fixed in release 1.152).

    • Nov. 8, 2023

      HSM maintenance

      Planned maintenance for SignPath’s HSM cluster.

      • Limited certificate management, slightly longer signing request processing times and hash signing response times.
      • Software certificates and Thales DPoD Cloud HSM certificates were not affected.
    • Aug. 7, 2023

      DNS error

      The domain signpath.io was not resolved by our domain registrar’s name servers. Problem detection was delayed as many systems including our monitoring were using cached DNS entries, and support email transmission was affected by the same problem.

    • May 11, 2023

      Performance degradation

      Performance issues due to a regression caused by a dependency. We noticed performance degradation in queue processing during the following periods:

      1. May 11 13:00 - 15:36 UTC: 18 min. processing time in the top 95 percentile, some API calls returned HTTP 502 as a side effect
      2. May 11 17:12 - 18:25 UTC: same processing time, no API errors
      3. May 12 08:45 - 09:22 UTC: 15 min. processing time in the top 95 percentile, no API errors

      As an initial reaction to 1 and 2, we allocated additional computing resources. Once the root cause was identified, we reverted the system to an old version of the component that caused the issue and deployed it as a hotfix.

    • Mar. 12, 2023

      Planned maintenance: HSM network reconfiguration

      We are reconfiguring the network connection to our HSM cluster for better availability. Operations using HSM keys will fail during this period. Software keys and customers using dedicated DPoD HSM instances are not affected.

    • Mar. 2, 2023

      Performance degradation, failed signing requests

      A configuration error caused a processing queue buildup from 9:15. The error was resolved by 11:00. By 11:30, the queue was processed completely and operations back to normal. Hash-based signing requests were not affected.

    • Jan. 25, 2023

      Intermittent network problems

      Due to multi-region network problems in Microsoft Azure (Tracking ID VSG1-B90), a small percentage of signing requests was failing. In most situations, this was mitigated by automated retries. (Read more)

    • Dec. 12, 2022

      Infrastructure problems

      One node experienced low-level infrastructure problems for signing operations. The issue could not be identified at runtime, so affected signing requests were not retried and failed immediately.

    • Sep. 14, 2022

      Processing delays

      Due to problems with the timestamp authority, several signing requests had to be rescheduled and completed late.

    • Jul. 21, 2022

      Infrastructure issues

      Due to outages of Azure SQL in the West Europe region, the web application and REST API were temporarily unavailable.

    • Apr. 6, 2022

      Processing delays

      Due to problems with the timestamp authority, several signing requests had to be rescheduled and completed late. (Read more)

    • Apr. 4, 2022

      Processing delays

      Due to problems with the timestamp authority, several signing requests had to be rescheduled and completed late. (Read more)

    • Mar. 31, 2022

      Infrastructure issue

      Our outbound proxy was temporarily out of service. This resulted in delays for Webhook notifications and signing requests that retrieve artifacts via URL.

    • Mar. 4, 2022

      Intermittent infrastructure issues

      The Azure Application Gateway was temporarily unavailable several times, but self-healed immediately each time

    • Oct. 16, 2021

      Planned maintenance

      Due to network configuration changes, HSM-based signing will experience problems. All signing requests will continue processing when network connectivity is restored.

    • Aug. 28, 2021

      Planned maintenance

      Due to network configuration changes, HSM-based signing will experience intermittent problems. All signing requests will continue processing when network connectivity is restored.

    • Jan. 4, 2021

      Planned maintenance to change authentication provider

      We are changing our authentication provider to Okta. This is the first of two migration steps.

    • Nov. 18, 2020

      Payment provider: Planned maintenance

      Our payment provider will do some maintenance, resulting in possible intermittent availability impact to platform services summing 1 hour. Service to existing customers of SignPath.io will not be affected.

    • Nov. 4, 2020

      Planned maintenance

      Due to a reconfiguration of our internet provider, the processing of HSM-based signing requests and creating/deleting certificates may be temporarily unavailable.

    • Jun. 4, 2020

      Planned maintenance

      Due to a reconfiguration of our internet provider, the processing of HSM-based signing requests and creating/deleting certificates may be temporarily unavailable.

    • May 23, 2020

      Planned maintenance

      Due to an upgrade in our networking infrastructure, problems performing operations involving the Hardware Security Module (HSM), such as signing operations or creating new certificates might occur.

    • May 14, 2020

      Infrastructure problems during deployment

      During the deployment of a new version of SignPath, infrastructure problems arose. The release was rolled back, but some downtime could not be avoided. One of the servers did not start correctly in the process, causing the API to be unavailable for certain customers.

    • May 9, 2020

      Planned maintenance

      Due to an upgrade in our networking infrastructure, problems performing operations involving the Hardware Security Module (HSM), such as signing operations or creating new certificates might occur.

    • Feb. 24, 2020

      Planned maintenance

      Due to an upgrade in our networking infrastructure, problems performing operations involving the Hardware Security Module (HSM), such as signing operations or creating new certificates might occur.

    • Nov. 7, 2019

      Azure outage

      Due to a Storage incident in the Azure datacenter in the West Europe regions, our services had several outages.

    Note that system updates and SignPath software updates are not listed here unless they may result in more than 5 minutes of downtime. We recommend that you set a retry limit for unavailable service errors of 10 minutes. This is also the default for our PowerShell scripts.

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