---
title: "Is Crossref JSON Snapshots down? Crossref JSON Snapshots status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/json-snapshots"
description: "Live Crossref JSON Snapshots status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref JSON Snapshots down?

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

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T02:10:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Metadata Plus
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: Metadata Plus snapshots provide access to all our 100 million plus metadata records in a single file, providing an easy way to retrieve an up-to-date copy of our records. Snapshots are available for Metadata Plus service users. The files are made available via a /snapshots route in the REST API which offers a compressed .tar file (tar.gz) containing the full extract of the metadata corpus in JSON format.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting JSON Snapshots

| 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 |
| 2026-05-04 | [April 2026 JSON Snapshot is missing data for records created or updated on 4/29 and 4/30](https://stspg.io/htvcj2yxts9r) | minor | 2d 22h |
| 2025-10-03 | [Errors with the Metadata Plus snapshots in the last day](https://stspg.io/71hn809fvhgj) | minor | 1d 17h |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/json-snapshots
- Service: /status/crossref.md