---
title: "Is Archive of Our Own down? Archive of Our Own status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/archiveofourown/archive-of-our-own"
description: "Live Archive of Our Own status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Archive of Our Own down?

**Answer:** We don't have live data for Archive of Our Own right now. Check the official Archive of Our Own status page.

- Status: unknown
- Checked: 2026-11-08T01:40:00Z (stale)
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Archive of Our Own](/status/archiveofourown.md)
- Official status page: https://www.otwstatus.org
- About: archiveofourown.org

## Last 45 days

0 of 3 tracked days without issues.

| Day | Worst status |
| --- | --- |
| 2026-11-08 | major outage |
| 2026-11-07 | major outage |
| 2026-11-06 | major outage |

## Incidents affecting Archive of Our Own

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-29 | [AO3 Down for Maintenance](https://stspg.io/z9gl9f63wyyb) | critical | ongoing |
| 2026-10-23 | [AO3 Emails, History, and Search Updates Delayed](https://stspg.io/f5j531kp3l4f) | minor | 4h 16m |
| 2026-10-14 | [AO3 Experiencing Issues](https://stspg.io/ctwgzzqzk98p) | minor | 1h 49m |
| 2026-06-17 | [500 errors & icons failing to load](https://stspg.io/4qnlp8mbqp3y) | minor | 42m |
| 2026-05-16 | [AO3 Minor Degraded Performance](https://stspg.io/m1cqny8f04m8) | minor | 6h 11m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/archiveofourown/archive-of-our-own
- Service: /status/archiveofourown.md