# \[Baidu News API\] Performance Degradation

- Provider: [SerpApi](https://down.guide/serpapi)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 14d 17h
- started 2026-04-13 18:35 UTC
- API
- id: DWN-54cf5f7c3b
- Official page: https://stspg.io/cmp8qz6t16pv

## Updates from SerpApi
### 2026-04-13 18:35 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

### 2026-04-14 02:26 UTC: investigating
We are still investigating the cause of this issue. Response times have returned to baseline.

### 2026-04-20 13:12 UTC: identified
We've identified the issue and are now working on a fix. We should have more updates soon.

### 2026-04-27 00:26 UTC: monitoring
We've deployed a fix to address the issue. We're currently monitoring the perfromance.

### 2026-04-28 12:25 UTC: resolved
We've recovered from the performance degradation with Baidu News API. The perforemance is back to it's previous state.

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