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

# Is GBIF down?

**Answer:** GBIF is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance.

- Status: maintenance
- Checked: 2026-11-07T09:30:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- GBIF says: Service Under Maintenance
- Official status page: https://status.gbif.org
- Website: https://gbif.org

## Affected right now

| Component | Status |
| --- | --- |
| [Dataset ingestion](/status/gbif/dataset-ingestion.md) | maintenance |

## Last 45 days

0 of 2 tracked days without issues.

| Day | Worst status |
| --- | --- |
| 2026-11-07 | maintenance |
| 2026-11-06 | partial outage (with maintenance) |

## Recent incidents

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-02 | [Download complexity limited](https://stspg.io/jgqtt6zmfkd8) | minor | 1d 19h |
| 2026-10-05 | [Unplanned maintenance](https://stspg.io/lfrkdth7th2j) | minor | 5h 6m |
| 2026-06-17 | [Dataset crawling and ingestion suspended](https://stspg.io/dzc26px1vtbw) | minor | 17h 39m |
| 2026-01-26 | [Disruptions due to power outage](https://stspg.io/zrxr3wj34zwf) | major | 22h 37m |

## Components (11)

1 with issues (listed above), 10 operational.

Each component has its own page: /status/gbif/{component}.md, for example /status/gbif/contentful-content-delivery-api.md

## Links

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