SerpApi Status

[Google Search API][Google Light Search API] Intermittent Performance Degradation

Monitoring - The performance has been more stable for the past few weeks. We'll continue monitoring.
May 06, 2026 - 15:24 UTC

Update - We're currently experiencing intermittent performance degradations primarily affecting our Google Search and Google Light Search APIs. We are working to restore consistent response times across APIs. In the meantime, users may intermittently notice elevated latency when using these APIs.
Apr 14, 2026 - 19:29 UTC

Identified - https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3715
Apr 14, 2026 - 19:29 UTC

[Walmart Product API] Performance Degradation

Monitoring - A fix has been implemented. We are monitoring the results.
May 06, 2026 - 15:23 UTC

Investigating - We’re seeing elevated response times again for the Walmart Product API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance.

Public Roadmap issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3739
Apr 30, 2026 - 14:17 UTC

[Google Finance API] Performance degradation

Update - We’re currently experiencing a major outage affecting Google Finance API and Google Finance Markets API. A large number of requests are failing or timing out. We have prioritized this issue and our engineering team is actively investigating.

Related Issues on our Public Roadmap:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3769
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3765
May 05, 2026 - 21:48 UTC

Investigating - We're seeing higher than normal response times on the Google Finance API and Google Finance Markets API. We're investigating.
Apr 30, 2026 - 15:06 UTC

[Google Images Light API] Bad images on the response

Identified - We're seeing bad image results on the Google Images Light API that display "the site does not have permission" text. We're currently looking for a solution to fix this.

Reference: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3346
Apr 28, 2026 - 05:42 UTC

[Google Shopping Light API] Performance Degradation

Update - We’re continuing to work on a fix to restore normal response times for the Google Shopping Light API. At this time, the issue should no longer be affecting other APIs.
Apr 07, 2026 - 17:34 UTC

Identified - The issue occurred due to changes from Google's side. We've made some temporary adjustements that should resolve the problem for the majority of APIs. Response times and success rates should be improving. Google Shopping and Google Shopping Light APIs may still be degraded or not function as expected. Thanks for your continued patience as we work toward a full resolution.
Feb 24, 2026 - 22:32 UTC

Investigating - We're currently experiencing elevated response times for most APIs, and reduced success rates on some.

The Google Shopping Light API appears most affected.

We're still investigating and will follow up when we have more information. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Feb 24, 2026 - 18:26 UTC

Uptime over the past 90 days. View historical uptime.

API Operational

90 days ago

99.29 % uptime

Today

Website Operational

90 days ago

99.96 % uptime

Today

Google Major Outage

90 days ago

99.71 % uptime

Today

Search API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Ads Transparency API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

AI Mode API Operational

90 days ago

99.54 % uptime

Today

AI Overview API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Autocomplete API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Events API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Forums API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Finance API Major Outage

90 days ago

95.64 % uptime

Today

Finance Markets API Major Outage

90 days ago

90.43 % uptime

Today

Flights API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Flights Autocomplete API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Hotels API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Hotels Reviews API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Hotels Photos API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Images API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Immersive Product API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Jobs API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Lens API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Local API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Local Services API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Maps API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Maps Reviews API Operational

90 days ago

99.37 % uptime

Today

News API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Patents API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Play Store API Operational

90 days ago

100.0 % uptime

Today

Past Incidents

May 9, 2026

No incidents reported today.

May 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 6, 2026

Unresolved incidents: [Walmart Product API] Performance Degradation, [Google Search API][Google Light Search API] Intermittent Performance Degradation.

May 5, 2026

[Google Maps Photos API] Searches timing out

Resolved - The issue affecting Google Maps Photos API has been resolved.

We’re very sorry for any disruption and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolved this issue.
May 5, 23:01 UTC

Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we're monitoring the performance.
May 5, 09:54 UTC

Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue causing increased response times and timeouts for the Google Maps Photos API.

We apologize for the disruption and will provide an update as soon as we have more information or once performance has stabilized.
May 4, 20:34 UTC

May 4, 2026

[Yandex Images API] Performance Degradation

Resolved - We have implemented a fix. The performance issues affecting Yandex Images API have been resolved. Response times and success rates have returned to normal levels.

We’re very sorry for the disruption this issue caused and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue. Please feel free to reach out to us at contact@serpapi.com if you encounter any further issues.
May 4, 20:10 UTC

Identified - We have identified the cause of the performance degradation. Our team is actively working on improvements to reduce latency and restore normal success rates.
May 1, 17:55 UTC

Investigating - We’re currently seeing elevated response times and a decrease in success rates for Yandex Images API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance.

Public Roadmap issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3772
Apr 30, 20:04 UTC

May 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

May 1, 2026

[eBay Search API] Degraded performance

Resolved - The performance issues affecting eBay Search API have been resolved. Response times and success rates have returned to normal levels.

We’re very sorry for the disruption this issue caused and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.
May 1, 20:32 UTC

Investigating - We’re currently seeing increased response times, which may result in elevated timeout errors. Our team is actively investigating.

You can track updates here:

https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3755
Apr 30, 20:09 UTC

Apr 30, 2026

API Internal Server Errors

Resolved - The outage has been resolved. Requests are succeeding as expected, and the APIs are operating normally again.

We’re very sorry for the interruption and are grateful for your patience while we worked to restore service.
Apr 30, 19:40 UTC

Monitoring - We’ve implemented a fix for the issue and are seeing recovery across affected services. Our team will continue to monitor performance closely to ensure stability.

Thank you for your patience, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Apr 28, 23:53 UTC

Update - Hi there,

We’ve significantly reduced the number of errors observed earlier today. Our team is continuing to work on fully resolving the issue and restoring normal performance.

Thank you very much for your patience, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Apr 28, 16:17 UTC

Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Apr 28, 12:26 UTC

Investigating - We're experiencing 500 errors across all APIs. We're investigating.

https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3762
Apr 28, 10:06 UTC

[Walmart Product API] Performance Degradation

Resolved - The issue was identified at a fix was released.
Apr 30, 07:19 UTC

Identified - The issue has been identified, and a preliminary fix is being tested.
Apr 23, 06:14 UTC

Investigating - We’re currently seeing elevated response times and a decrease in success rates for Walmart Product API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance.

Public Roadmap issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3739
Apr 22, 07:57 UTC

Apr 29, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 28, 2026

[Baidu News API] Performance Degradation

Resolved - We've recovered from the performance degradation with Baidu News API. The perforemance is back to it's previous state.
Apr 28, 12:25 UTC

Monitoring - We've deployed a fix to address the issue. We're currently monitoring the perfromance.
Apr 27, 00:26 UTC

Identified - We've identified the issue and are now working on a fix. We should have more updates soon.
Apr 20, 13:12 UTC

Update - We are still investigating the cause of this issue. Response times have returned to baseline.
Apr 14, 02:26 UTC

Investigating - We’re currently seeing elevated response times for Baidu News API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance.

Public Roadmap issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3709
Apr 13, 18:35 UTC

[eBay Search API] Performance degradation

Resolved - We've deployed a fix, and the response times are back to normal.
Apr 28, 11:08 UTC

Monitoring - The response time seems back to usual at the moment. We'll continue to monitor the performance.
Apr 28, 02:18 UTC

Investigating - We're seeing increased response times leading to increased time out errors as well. We're investigating.

https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3755
Apr 27, 09:02 UTC

[Google Local API] Empty results

Resolved - We noticed some searches return empty results on our API. We immediately fixed the issue. It should be running as usual now.

Reference: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3758
Apr 28, 02:12 UTC

Apr 27, 2026

Apr 26, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 25, 2026

No incidents reported.