Open Exchange Rates experienced a minor incident on May 21, 2023 affecting Exchange Rate API, lasting 1h 41m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 21, 2023, 07:38 AM UTC
We are currently investigating a platform issue that is resulting in API timeouts. Please stand by for updates.
- identified May 21, 2023, 08:00 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring May 21, 2023, 08:16 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved May 21, 2023, 09:20 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved. The service degradation began at approximately 07:10 UTC, and was resolved by 08:10 UTC. During this time, some clients received 500 error messages in response to their API requests. This was the result of a misconfiguration during regular scheduled platform updates that was caused by a cache recovery event that occurred at the same time. We do not anticipate a recurrence.