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

# Is Crossref Metadata search down?

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

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T09:50:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / Sites
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: Metadata search - search.crossref.org - is Crossref’s primary user interface for searching and filtering our millions of records for journal articles, books, standards, datasets and more

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Metadata search

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-20 | [Crossref Metadata Search - search.crossref.org - Outage (504 gateway timeout)](https://stspg.io/shwttjjdcd00) | major | 23h 17m |
| 2026-07-07 | [Degraded performance in the REST API public and polite pools](https://stspg.io/lp5z421p16q2) | minor | 23h 8m |
| 2026-07-02 | [Cursor requests not returning all results in the REST API](https://stspg.io/y8xfmzkmlzj9) | minor | 3d 21h |
| 2026-06-22 | [Degraded performance on Public and Polite REST API](https://stspg.io/h5tdh92ppzjd) | minor | 1d 23h |
| 2025-09-15 | [Metadata indexing failure and instability on the REST API (Starting Friday 12th 20:00 UTC and continuing) affecting several other tools](https://stspg.io/s85115wtlhqb) | minor | 17d 6h |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/metadata-search
- Service: /status/crossref.md