No impact incident

Crossref: Content Registration Outage and Instability

Oct 16, 2026, 21:35 UTC

started

20:20 UTC

resolved October 19, 2026

2 days 22 h

duration

Affected: Admin tool, Web deposit form, New Metadata Manager

Current status of Crossref: Operational — live Crossref status

Timeline

Oct 16, 2026, 21:35 UTC
monitoring
The metadata deposit and query processing queue was down for roughly 30 minutes starting around 20:40 UTC. It was brought back online around 21:10 UTC. We are monitoring for any possible ongoing instability.
Oct 19, 2026, 20:20 UTC
resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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