Crossref experienced a minor incident on August 22, 2025 affecting Plus REST API, lasting 2d 22h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Plus REST API
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 22, 2025, 02:47 PM UTC
We've had a Metadata Plus user sending bursts of very large numbers of queries which is knocking out the REST API Plus pool for a number of minutes at a time throughout the day today. We are working to get in contact with the Plus user in question to correct the behavior, but those large bursts of queries are causing some intermittent instability to the Plus pool. -IF
- resolved Aug 25, 2025, 01:24 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.