Albania experiences brief connectivity disruption affecting BGP

Albania experienced a brief connectivity disruption between approximately 23:50 UTC on July 20 and 02:45 UTC on July 21. The event registered a severity score of 472 and primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.

Technical Details

The disruption lasted approximately 2.9 hours. The BGP signal, which measures control plane visibility for internet routing prefixes, recorded two periods of degradation contributing to the total score. Other measurement signals, including ping-slash24 (ICMP reachability across IPv4 /24 prefixes) and gtr.sarima (forecast deviation from expected traffic baseline), showed reduced activity but were not the primary signals flagged for the event.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by 02:45 UTC.