# \[Google News API\] Performance Degradation

- Provider: [SerpApi](https://down.guide/providers/serpapi)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 5d 19h
- started 2026-09-17 22:09 UTC
- News API
- id: DWN-659322e913
- Official page: https://stspg.io/qf3pg0sbhz2c

## Updates from SerpApi
### 2026-09-17 22:09 UTC: investigating
We are currently investigating elevated response times and decreased success rates for the Google News API.
You can view the Public Roadmap issue here:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4307

### 2026-09-19 23:18 UTC: investigating
We're continuing to investigate this issue.

### 2026-09-22 12:37 UTC: monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring.

### 2026-09-23 18:07 UTC: resolved
Performance has remained stable. This is resolved.

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