DataCite experienced a minor incident on October 7, 2025 affecting Metadata Store (MDS) API and REST API and 1 more component, lasting 1h 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Metadata Store (MDS) APIREST APIFabricaGraphQL APICommons
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 07, 2025, 01:53 PM UTC
We are investigating degraded performance across our services. This is manifesting as occasional error messages or slow response times for API requests and/or frontend services.
- monitoring Oct 07, 2025, 02:35 PM UTC
Our service autoscaling increased resources to handle a higher amount of traffic. This has improved performance, and we are continuing to monitor the situation.
- resolved Oct 07, 2025, 03:09 PM UTC
Performance of all services has returned to normal levels.