Crossref Metadata Search - search.crossref.org - Outage (504 gateway timeout)
Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Metadata search
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Aug 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Aug 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM UTC
Investigating
Crossref Metadata Search has been down and returning a 504 error since approximately 13:00 UTC. We are investigating.
Aug 20, 2026 at 2:13 PM UTC
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