ESI Authentication Issues

Incident Report for KnowBe4

Postmortem

On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from approximately 16:12 to 18:35 (UTC), some US users experienced issues when signing in to the Prevent, Defend, Protect, Secure Web Form, and Workspace products.

This incident was caused by the recent deployment of a new monitoring agent. The agent consumed more resources than expected, leading to periodic resource strain and service instability. To resolve this issue, we optimized the agent's resource usage and increased the total system capacity, and the affected products returned to normal performance by 18:35 (UTC).

To prevent this type of issue in the future, we are maintaining the increased system capacity for current and future projects.

No data loss occurred as a result of this issue.

Posted Feb 11, 2026 - 19:08 UTC

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Dec 03, 2025 - 11:41 UTC

Monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Posted Dec 02, 2025 - 18:49 UTC

Update

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Posted Dec 02, 2025 - 16:51 UTC

Identified

Some customers have reported issues with logging into the ESI page on the US instance. We have currently identified this issue.
Posted Dec 02, 2025 - 16:47 UTC
This incident affected: Prevent (Authentication), Defend (Authentication), and KnowBe4 Security Center.