Guatemala experienced a prolonged disruption to its internet control plane visibility beginning on August 21 and concluding on September 2. The event, which lasted for nearly 12 days, was characterized by a significant degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, a key mechanism for routing information exchange between networks.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 19,548. The primary affected metric was the BGP median signal, which measures the control plane visibility and stability of advertised network prefixes. While the BGP signal showed a sustained anomaly, other connectivity indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability (ping-slash24) and traffic volume forecasts (gtr.sarima), remained largely stable throughout the period. The event was observed from August 21 at 08:25 UTC until September 2 at 00:30 UTC.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored at the end of the observation period.
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