Here is ProbeLab’s update on the state of the IPFS network over the past few weeks (20th Feb to 12th March). The intention of these reports is to direct efforts to parts of the protocol that need attention. Here’s the highlights:
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Significant increase of Amino DHT Client nodes (from ~350k to more than 550k) during the last week of February: https://probelab.io/ipfs/#chart-ipfs-servers-vs-clients-ts
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Kubo presented pretty stable performance over the last few weeks (so not really a “notable” result!
): https://probelab.io/ipfs/kubo/ -
IPNI: Increased downtime for IPNI on the 8th of March 2026 after a brief outage (7%, compared to 1%-2% recently) and increased delayed ingests on the same day (12%, compared to close to 0% since the beginning of March): https://probelab.io/ipfs/ipni/cid.contact/#chart-ipni-uptime-bar.
- Worth noting that the greyed bars are due to a brief failure of our tooling and therefore lack of data for that period.
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Constant upward trend on the number of requests through the gateways: https://probelab.io/ipfs/gateways/#chart-ipfs-gateway-requests-ts
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Slight increase in the IPFS Amino DHT Lookup Performance at the end of February/beginning of March (from just below 0.3s to 0.4s), but nothing that points to an issue: https://probelab.io/ipfs/dht/#chart-ipfs-dht-lookup-performance-ts.
- Worth noting that the red stripe are due to a brief failure of our tooling and therefore lack of data for that period.
As always, feedback is welcome on this forum or the contact details of the ProbeLab team.