Crossref incidents — OutageDB

No impact Crossref incident: New funder matches not available via the Metadata Plus REST API pool

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:01:51 GMT

Ongoing.

No impact Crossref incident: Content Registration Outage and Instability

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:35:46 GMT

Resolved after 2 days 22 h.

Critical Crossref incident: Metadata Plus REST API not validating API keys

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:21:43 GMT

Resolved after 4 h 04 min.

Critical Crossref incident: test.crossref.org is currently being monitored

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:30:22 GMT

Resolved after 25 h 19 min.

Critical Crossref incident: Test admin tool - test.crossref.org - is down

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:22:19 GMT

Resolved after 23 min.

Major Crossref incident: Errors logging in to the test admin tool - test.crossref.org

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:57:36 GMT

Resolved after 6 h 21 min.

No impact Crossref incident: www.crossref.org was down for 70 mins on Sunday, 13 September; we're monitoring for the coming weeks

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:19:23 GMT

Resolved after 9 days 14 h.

No impact Crossref incident: www.crossref.org was down for 70 mins

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:39:45 GMT

Resolved after 22 h 07 min.

Minor Crossref incident: Content registration processing delays today

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:25:30 GMT

Resolved after 4 h 13 min.

No impact Crossref incident: Several members reporting errors when attempting to log in to register records (Admin tool, Metadata Manager, web deposit form, OJS)

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:00:56 GMT

Resolved after <1 min.

Major Crossref incident: Crossref Metadata Search - search.crossref.org - Outage (504 gateway timeout)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:13:31 GMT

Resolved after 23 h 17 min.

Critical Crossref incident: Admin tool - doi.crossref.org - returning a 503 status code

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:46:33 GMT

Resolved after 48 min.

Major Crossref incident: Login issues affecting Crossref services

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:36:31 GMT

Resolved after 40 min.

No impact Crossref incident: Main website down between 07:40 UTC and 08:13 UTC

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:32:12 GMT

Resolved after <1 min.

Minor Crossref incident: Degraded performance in the REST API public and polite pools

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:18:16 GMT

Resolved after 23 h 08 min.

Minor Crossref incident: Cursor requests not returning all results in the REST API

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:00:17 GMT

Resolved after 3 days 21 h.

Minor Crossref incident: Degraded performance on Public and Polite REST API

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:20:09 GMT

Resolved after 47 h 23 min.

Major Crossref incident: Investigating an outage

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:15:07 GMT

Resolved after 3 h 44 min.

No impact Crossref incident: DOI Error Reports (Non-registered DOIs reported by end users for prefix…) were not sent between May 11th and June 10th 2026

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:25:26 GMT

Resolved after —.

Minor Crossref incident: Degraded service on REST API

Fri, 29 May 2026 12:12:31 GMT

Resolved after 7 days 5 h.

Critical Crossref incident: Test admin tool - test.crossref.org - returning 503 status code errors after today's deployment

Thu, 14 May 2026 16:10:09 GMT

Resolved after 2 h 08 min.

Minor Crossref incident: Bug identified, possibly resulting in failed submissions. Emergency maintenance scheduled.

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:59:47 GMT

Resolved after 2 h 38 min.

Minor Crossref incident: April 2026 JSON Snapshot is missing data for records created or updated on 4/29 and 4/30

Mon, 04 May 2026 13:45:08 GMT

Resolved after 2 days 22 h.

No impact Crossref incident: Submission processing delayed on Sunday, 3 May

Sun, 03 May 2026 23:34:48 GMT

Resolved after —.

Minor Crossref incident: REST API Indexing Stalled since April 29th. Impacts on downstream services.

Sat, 02 May 2026 16:37:50 GMT

Resolved after 2 days 20 h.