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Last checked 6m agoNo incidents right now.
crates.io is operational right now. Last checked 6m ago; the most recent incident resolved 20d ago.
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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- crates.io
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating · Jul 11, 2026, 02:22 PM UTC
We are experience what looks like a coordinated DoS attack against our API servers. We are monitoring the situation and are assessing our reaction. Crate downloads and dependency resolution through the sparse/git index should not be affected.
- investigating · Jul 11, 2026, 02:22 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring · Jul 11, 2026, 03:06 PM UTC
We have deployed countermeasures and our servers are largely back to normal again. We keep monitoring the situation. If you encounter any issues please let us know!
- resolved · Jul 11, 2026, 03:42 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved. Big thanks to Fastly for providing their CDN services and their fast response time!
Latest: This incident has been resolved. Big thanks to Fastly for providing their CDN services and their fast response time!
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- crates.io
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Jun 14, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC
crates.io responses are unusually slow due to database issues, with occasional 500s due to database timeouts. We are investigating.
- identified · Jun 14, 2026, 01:37 AM UTC
The read-only replica database used for many of our common queries is under heavy load. We are evaluating options to deal with this.
- resolved · Jun 14, 2026, 01:53 AM UTC
The primary source of the load appears to have been a scraper abusing our API. We have blocked the scraper and the replica database has returned to its normal heavily loaded state instead of being overloaded.
Latest: The primary source of the load appears to have been a scraper abusing our API. We have blocked the scraper and the replica database has returned to its normal heavily loaded state …
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- crates.io
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified · May 23, 2026, 06:47 PM UTC
The reverse dependencies pages are temporarily unavailable. Other crates.io functionality should continue to function normally.
- monitoring · May 23, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC
Reverse dependencies remain disabled, but the rest of crates.io is functioning normally.
- resolved · May 26, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- crates.io
Timeline · 2 updates
- monitoring · May 20, 2026, 03:52 PM UTC
Crates.io is currently affected by a suspected denial of service affecting the web frontend. The reverse dependency endpoint has been disabled. You will not be able to browse reverse dependencies on crates.io for the duration of the incident. All other operations, publishes and the index are operating normally.
- resolved · May 20, 2026, 04:57 PM UTC
All endpoints are now operational and available again.
Latest: All endpoints are now operational and available again.
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- DoS Attack ResolvedStarted Jul 11, 2026, 02:22 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 11, 2026, 03:42 PM UTC · 1h 19m
- crates.io slowness ResolvedStarted Jun 14, 2026, 01:20 AM UTC · Resolved Jun 14, 2026, 01:53 AM UTC · 33m
- Reverse dependency pages unavailable ResolvedStarted May 23, 2026, 06:47 PM UTC · Resolved May 26, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC · 2d 22h
- Degraded performance on crates.io ResolvedStarted May 20, 2026, 03:52 PM UTC · Resolved May 20, 2026, 04:57 PM UTC · 1h 5m