Performance Degradation

Incident Report for SerpApi

Update

We've made several adjustments over the past 24 hours and are seeing improved success rates and response times across the affected APIs. However, performance remains degraded, and our engineers are continuing to work toward fully restoring service.

Thank you for your continued patience. We'll share further updates as we make progress.
Posted Oct 08, 2026 - 21:11 UTC

Update

We're continuing to experience significant performance degradation across many of our Google based APIs.

We have implemented a potential solution, which is currently in review.

Thank you again for your patience while we work to resolve this.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 18:41 UTC

Identified

While performance is better than when the issue was reported, we're still experiencing significant degradation across many Google services, including Google Search, Google Ads, Google Images Light, Google Jobs, Google Light, Google News Light, and Google Shopping APIs.

The team is working on a resolution and hopes to provide updates as soon as possible.

We're deeply sorry for the trouble this issue is causing you. Thank you for your patience.
Posted Oct 07, 2026 - 13:02 UTC

Investigating

We are currently experiencing a partial service outage affecting multiple APIs.

Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore normal service as soon as possible.

We apologize for the disruption and will provide updates as we make progress:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4426
Posted Oct 06, 2026 - 15:51 UTC
This incident affects: Google (Search API, AI Overview API, Images API, Jobs API, Lens API, Local API, News API, Shopping API, Videos API) and Google Light (Search API, Images Light API, News Light API, Shopping Light API, Videos Light API).