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EarthScope Data Services has scheduled a necessary maintenance window to upgrade capabilities of deployed seismic services in the NSF NGF cloud system. This is a routine operation that involves reconfiguration of a large database system, which necessitates a temporary halt of some programmatic activity.
What: Scheduled maintenance operation causing a short service disruption
When: Morning of Tuesday, August 25, 2026
How long: Approximately two hours
Services likely to be affected
- Data Products (formerly SPUD) – https://ds.iris.edu/ds/products/
- WILBER – https://ds.iris.edu/wilber3/
- ds.iris.edu web pages
- service.iris.edu web service docs
- Virtual Network web service – https://service.iris.edu/irisws/virtualnetwork/1/
- Metadata Aggregator web app (MDA) – https://ds.iris.edu/mda/
- Metadata Change web service – https://service.iris.edu/irisws/metadatachange/1/
Services NOT affected by this downtime
- fdsnws-dataselect service – https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/dataselect/1/
- fdsnws-station service – https://service.earthscope.org/fdsnws/station/1/
- Mars-event service – https://service.earthscope.org/irisws/mars-event/1/
- Timeseriesplot service – https://service.earthscope.org/irisws/timeseriesplot/1/
- Nominal Response Library (NRL) – https://service.earthscope.org/irisws/nrl/1/
- Fedcatalog service – https://service.earthscope.org/irisws/fedcatalog/1/
- Syngine Service – https://service.earthscope.org/irisws/syngine/1/
- Other core seismic services such as SeedLink and archiving
We are working to keep downtime to a minimum, but please know it is possible that there may be unexpected outages in other applications and services during this time. Please reach out to help@earthscope.org if you have any questions.