---
title: "Is OpenAthens Authentication broker down? OpenAthens Authentication broker status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/openathens/authentication-broker"
description: "Live OpenAthens Authentication broker status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is OpenAthens Authentication broker down?

**Answer:** No, OpenAthens Authentication broker is not down. All OpenAthens Authentication broker systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T00:11:31Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [OpenAthens](/status/openathens.md)
- Official status page: https://status.openathens.net
- About: The OpenAthens Authentication Broker is used to authenticate users against customer systems external to OpenAthens, such as LDAP or Sirsi.

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Authentication broker

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 | [Service Outage - All Services P1](https://stspg.io/kh147fw838b1) | critical | 6h 13m |
| 2026-09-30 | [Service Outage - Authentication broker - P1](https://stspg.io/hqk06d83p0v1) | critical | 6h 47m |
| 2025-01-27 | [Service Outage - Authentication Services - P1](https://stspg.io/v9kjn9sj453m) | critical | 7h 22m |
| 2024-05-23 | [OpenAthens Outage - P1](https://stspg.io/fhwtc04t4qhj) | critical | 4h 22m |
| 2024-04-16 | [Degradation Of Service - P2](https://stspg.io/zbfc2s2zgh12) | major | 1h 38m |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/openathens/authentication-broker
- Service: /status/openathens.md