# Performance degradation across many Google APIs

- Provider: [SerpApi](https://down.guide/providers/serpapi)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 1d 16h
- started 2026-08-07 20:57 UTC
- API, Search API, Ads Transparency API +35
- id: DWN-0fe44dfe38
- Official page: https://stspg.io/1bcjlw4pw62y

## Updates from SerpApi
### 2026-08-07 20:57 UTC: investigating
We’re currently experiencing an outage affecting multiple APIs. A large number of requests are failing or timing out. Our engineering team is actively investigating and treating this as our top priority.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4129

### 2026-08-08 00:57 UTC: monitoring
Our team has released a fix, and success rates and response times have returned to expected levels for most Google APIs. A few services are still recovering, and you may experience increased response times as performance returns to normal.
We continue to monitor the issue.

### 2026-08-08 10:37 UTC: investigating
We're seeing increased response times again. We're investigating.

### 2026-08-08 21:06 UTC: monitoring
Hi there,
Our engineering team has deployed an additional fix, and performance has improved. We're continuing to monitor the situation closely before considering the issue fully resolved.
We sincerely apologize for the disruption and appreciate your patience while we work to ensure stability.

### 2026-08-09 13:26 UTC: resolved
This is resolved. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this.

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