---
title: "Is Crossref down? Crossref status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref"
description: "Live Crossref status, what is affected right now, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref is not down. All Crossref systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T00:06:41Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- Website: https://crossref.org

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Recent incidents

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-21 | [New funder matches not available via the Metadata Plus REST API pool](https://stspg.io/3j409vgn1gzr) | incident | 7d 13h |
| 2026-10-16 | [Content Registration Outage and Instability](https://stspg.io/46rxfj1t2ctb) | incident | 2d 22h |
| 2026-10-05 | [Metadata Plus REST API not validating API keys](https://stspg.io/5znn7l4sz42b) | critical | 4h 4m |
| 2026-10-04 | [test.crossref.org is currently being monitored](https://stspg.io/jp8p7yk2q94b) | critical | 1d 1h |
| 2026-09-27 | [Test admin tool - test.crossref.org - is down](https://stspg.io/rthv9r9cxy4t) | critical | 23m |

## Components (31)

All components operational.

Each component has its own page: /status/crossref/{component}.md, for example /status/crossref/crossref-website.md

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref
- Upstream: https://status.crossref.org
- All services: /status.md