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Bitfinex WS · connection degradation, 3 min on 06 OCT 2026

Bitfinex WS — 13.3% of windows failing over the last five minutes (conn) — from Lauterbourg, FR and Singapore, SG. up24 opened this incident from its own measurements of Bitfinex's public API on 06 OCT 2026 15:49 UTC. It lasted 3 min and ended 06 OCT 2026 15:53 UTC, when the component started answering again.

DEGRADEDWS · connection · the shared socket
DURATION
3 min
STARTED
06 OCT 2026 15:49 UTC
ENDED
06 OCT 2026 15:53 UTC
VS THEIR NOTICE
NOT ACKNOWLEDGED

WHAT HAPPENED

  1. 06 OCT 2026 15:49 UTC
    up24 opened the incident at degraded, conn.
  2. 06 OCT 2026 15:53 UTC
    The component started answering again. up24 dates the incident from this moment, not from when its clearing rule finished.

HOW IT FAILED

Over the window, 14 of 2,286 ten-second windows failed: conn ×10, timeout ×4.

— p50‑ ‑ p95
axis 0 – 500ms
15:20 · 06 OCT15:51 · 06 OCT16:23 · 06 OCT

A stream has no latency of its own — a feed either delivers or it does not — so this is Bitfinex's REST endpoints over the same window, per minute, as the median across them. It answers the question the timeline cannot: whether the rest of the exchange was fine while this feed was down.

DID BITFINEX SAY SO?

Bitfinex publishes a status feed and nothing in it lines up with this incident. That is not proof they stayed silent; it is what their feed says.

up24 opened 62 incidents for Bitfinex in the last 90 days. Nothing Bitfinex published lines up with any of them.

BITFINEX — OTHER INCIDENTS

Measured by up24's own probe against Bitfinex's public API, tBTCUSD against USD, every 5s. This page is generated from the incident's own rows — 2 recorded transitions — and nothing on it is reported by Bitfinex.