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Performance degradation across many Google APIs

Partial outage Lasted 5d 21h · started · SerpApi's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
API, Search API, Search API, News Light API, Jobs API, Shopping API
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use SerpApi API, Search API, Search API, News Light API and 2 more. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 5d 21h it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-04 21:27 UTC and 2026-09-10 18:35 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from SerpApi 5

  1. investigating

    We apologize for the impact. We're currently seeing elevated response times and error rates across many Google APIs including Google Light Search API, Google Shopping API, Google News Light API, Google Jobs API and others. Related issue on our Public Roadmap: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4240

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  2. identified

    We’ve identified the likely cause and are actively testing several potential fixes. We appreciate your patience and will share another update as soon as we have more information.

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  3. monitoring

    Quick update: We've deployed a fix for this. We're actively monitoring the performance. Thank you for your patience while we work on this.

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  4. investigating

    We're currently seeing elevated response times across Google APIs, including Google Search API, Google Shopping API, Google News Light API, Google Jobs API, and others. Related issue on our Public Roadmap: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4240

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  5. resolved

    We will be closing this issue, as we have opened more specific incidents with additional information: - Google News Result Timeouts: https://status.serpapi.com/incidents/6chb6clhbgw4 - Advanced Search Operator Timeouts: https://status.serpapi.com/incidents/pts4x92phsq8 Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve these outstanding issues.

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Questions about DWN-5e94a06f77

Is SerpApi still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-10 18:35 UTC. For SerpApi's live state, see https://down.guide/serpapi.

How long did it last?

5d 21h, from 2026-09-04 21:27 UTC to 2026-09-10 18:35 UTC, by the times SerpApi posted.

What was affected?

SerpApi named API, Search API, Search API, News Light API and 2 more.

What caused it?

SerpApi hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

SerpApi's official status page, https://status.serpapi.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.