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Crossref Incident History

Operational

crossref.org ↗7 top-level components

checked Nov 2, 2026 11:37 AM UTC · Crossref's official status page

Crossref is up and running.

Crossref is currently operational with all systems functioning normally.

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Crossref incident history

4 reports published by Crossref in the last 30 days

When Crossref breaks, it is typically resolved in 1h 2m — median across 8 resolved incidents over 30 days.

October 21, 2026

New funder matches not available via the Metadata Plus REST API pool

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 29 · 01:10 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Reported by Crossref on their status page.

October 16, 2026

Content Registration Outage and Instability

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 19 · 20:20 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Reported by Crossref on their status page.

October 5, 2026

Metadata Plus REST API not validating API keys

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 5 · 16:25 UTC

    We have identified the problem due to a bug in a deployment. The deployment was reversed and the Plus pool of the API is working normally again.

Reported by Crossref on their status page.

October 4, 2026

test.crossref.org is currently being monitored

Last update
  1. resolvedOct 5 · 12:49 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Reported by Crossref on their status page.