Venezuela experienced a brief disruption to its internet control plane visibility on Thursday, August 20, 2026. The event began at 10:35 UTC and lasted for approximately 1.9 hours, concluding by 12:30 UTC. The disruption was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.
Technical Details
The event recorded a severity score of 704. The primary affected metric was the BGP median signal, which measures the control plane visibility of internet routing prefixes. This signal showed a peak drop magnitude of 6% during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing reachability (ping-slash24) and backscatter traffic measurements (merit-nt), showed minor concurrent fluctuations but were not the primary signals of the event.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
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