Open Exchange Rates incident
Unscheduled maintenance - Sunday 21 Jan 2024
Open Exchange Rates experienced a major incident on January 21, 2024 affecting Exchange Rate API and Website and 1 more component, lasting 1d 5h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Jan 21, 2024, 07:48 AM UTC
We are currently undergoing unscheduled maintenance on our caching infrastructure. API connectivity will be impacted for up to 1 hour. During this time, clients may experience timeouts when connecting to the service. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
- identified Jan 21, 2024, 09:34 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing unplanned API downtime, caused by an application error that occurred during automatic maintenance to our AWS caching infrastructure. We are actively working to get the service back up and running as soon as possible. However, we are not able to provide an ETA at present. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
- monitoring Jan 21, 2024, 12:03 PM UTC
We have implemented a fix and connectivity to the API is now restored. We are continuing with remediation steps and monitoring all systems closely to ensure continued operation. Please note that historical data availability may be affected between approximately 07:30 and 12:00 UTC.
- resolved Jan 22, 2024, 01:09 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.