Performance Degradation

What to do

• Check whether you use SerpApi API, Search API, Images Light API, Lens API and 1 more. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 4d 20h it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-07-07 15:46 UTC and 2026-07-12 11:59 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to SerpApi's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=serpapi works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from SerpApi 4

1. investigatingJul 7, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

   We're currently investigating longer response times and lower success rates across APIs.

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2. identifiedJul 7, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

   Our engineers identified the cause of the current performance degradation within an upstream component of our infrastructure. We are actively implementing improvements to stabilize performance across affected APIs.

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3. monitoringJul 8, 2026, 6:13 AM UTC

   We're seeing a better performance for hours. However, we're still monitoring the situation.

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4. resolvedJul 12, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

   The performance has been stable for the past few days after we made some changes internal changes. We'll continue monitoring and making adjustments. This issue is considered resolved now.

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Corrections

None so far.

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