GBIF outage history and status
Is GBIF down right now?
No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
Open incidents
100%
uptime, 90 days
1
incidents, 90 days
5 h 06 min
median time to fix
Oct 5, 2026
last incident
GBIF components
External services
- Contentful Content Delivery API Operational
- GitHub API Requests Operational
- GBIF.org Operational
- Occurrence API Operational
- Species API Operational
- Registry API Operational
- Maps API Operational
- Image cache Operational
- Dataset ingestion Operational
- Taxon API Operational
- Events API Operational
GBIF outage history
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026, 06:25 UTC | Unplanned maintenance Dataset ingestion | Minor | 5 h 06 min |
| Jun 17, 2026, 14:02 UTC | Dataset crawling and ingestion suspended Dataset ingestion | Minor | 17 h 39 min |
| Jan 26, 2026, 13:56 UTC | Disruptions due to power outage Occurrence API, Dataset ingestion | Major | 22 h 37 min |
3 incidents in our archive since January 26, 2026.
When and where GBIF fails
Most affected, last 12 months
- Dataset ingestion3
- Occurrence API1
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FAQ
- Is GBIF down right now?
- At our last check GBIF's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
- How often does GBIF go down?
- GBIF reported 1 incidents in the last 90 days (0 major or critical), with 0 minutes of major outage: 100% uptime.
- When was the last GBIF outage?
- The latest reported incident started on Oct 5, 2026, 06:25 UTC: "Unplanned maintenance", resolved after 5 h 06 min.
- How long do GBIF outages last?
- Half of GBIF's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 5 h 06 min.
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