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  1. Symptoms

    At 12:10 UTC on 25 August 2026, PubNub's internal monitoring alerted that a very small subset of messages in one availability zone of the US East point of presence might not have been delivered right away to subscribers in the same region. Publish and Subscribe calls returned no errors, even though some messages did not appear in the responses.

    Trigger

    During planned internal load testing, a group of internal routing servers was removed from service.

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    Detection

    PubNub's internal monitoring alerted at 12:10 UTC; synthetic monitoring then confirmed that no more messages were being missed.

    Remediation
    • Performed a rolling restart of the affected servers to clear the outdated routing addresses
    Action items
    • Deploy a fix to all publishing servers worldwide so that outdated internal routing addresses are retired correctly
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