Serper Outage History

Serper degraded · 1 active incident View live status →

Serper had 23 outages in the last 2 years totaling 266h 25m of downtime — averaging 0.9 incidents per month.

There were 23 Serper outages since April 27, 2025 totaling 266h 25m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://serper.betteruptime.com

Minor September 2, 2026

Intermittent degradation af...

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 02, 2026, 02:56 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC
Duration
5h 39m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Sep 02, 2026, 02:56 AM UTC

    We’re investigating an issue where some queries using the site: operator intermittently return results that do not respect the specified domain.

  2. resolved Sep 02, 2026, 08:35 AM UTC

    The issue appears to be resolved, and site: queries are returning results normally again. We’ll continue to monitor the situation closely.

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Minor September 1, 2026

Elevated Latency Across APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 01, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 01, 2026, 05:22 PM UTC
Duration
1h 48m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 01, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC

    It seems Google itself is having issues at the moment causing higher latencies across all endpoints: https://downdetector.com/status/google/

  2. investigating Sep 01, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC

    It seems Google itself is having infra issues at the moment causing higher latencies across all endpoints: https://downdetector.com/status/google/ https://status.cloud.google.com/

  3. resolved Sep 01, 2026, 05:22 PM UTC

    We're seeing recovery

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Major August 25, 2026

Elevated error rates /news...

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 25, 2026, 02:48 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 25, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC
Duration
5h 14m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 25, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC

    We're observing increased failure rate for Google News queries with search operators (e.g. site:).

  2. investigating Aug 25, 2026, 02:48 AM UTC

    We’re noticing elevated error rates for /news queries containing search operators (e.g. site:). We’re looking into it.

  3. resolved Aug 25, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC

    Google appears to have made a permanent change affecting /news queries with search operators (e.g. site:). We’ve implemented a workaround, though snippets are currently unavailable for these queries

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Minor August 24, 2026

Degraded performance Google...

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 24, 2026, 07:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 24, 2026, 08:33 PM UTC
Duration
13h 31m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 24, 2026, 07:02 AM UTC

    We're observing elevated latency and an increased failure rate for Google Scholar requests.

  2. resolved Aug 24, 2026, 08:33 PM UTC

    Error rate has started to recover.

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Minor August 14, 2026

Elevated Latency and Error...

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 14, 2026, 08:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 14, 2026, 08:54 PM UTC
Duration
50m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 14, 2026, 08:04 PM UTC

    We're looking into it

  2. investigating Aug 14, 2026, 08:04 PM UTC

    We're looking into it.

  3. resolved Aug 14, 2026, 08:54 PM UTC

    Latency and error rates have returned to normal levels. We'll continue to monitor closely.

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Minor August 7, 2026

Elevated Latency and Error ...

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 07, 2026, 05:39 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 10, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC
Duration
2d 23h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 07, 2026, 05:39 PM UTC

    We're observing elevated latency and an increased error rate across our APIs. We're actively looking into it.

  2. resolved Aug 10, 2026, 05:05 PM UTC

    Overall latency has improved, but repeated non-generic queries sent within a short time window will continue to see higher latency due to changes by Google.

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Minor July 29, 2026

Degradation of /images and ...

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 29, 2026, 02:53 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 29, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC
Duration
12m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 29, 2026, 02:53 PM UTC

    We're noticing higher latency with the /images and /news endpoint but it seems to be recovering already.

  2. resolved Jul 29, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC

    It seems to have recovered.

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Major July 16, 2026

Partial outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 16, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 16, 2026, 02:35 AM UTC
Duration
33m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 16, 2026, 02:02 AM UTC

    We're experiencing issues at the moment. We're actively looking into it.

  2. resolved Jul 16, 2026, 02:35 AM UTC

    We're seeing recovery.

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Minor July 7, 2026

API recovered

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 07, 2026, 06:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 07, 2026, 06:14 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. investigating Jul 07, 2026, 06:04 PM UTC

    API went down

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Minor July 7, 2026

Degraded API Performance

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 07, 2026, 05:55 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 07, 2026, 06:20 PM UTC
Duration
25m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jul 07, 2026, 05:55 PM UTC

    We're actively looking into it.

  2. investigating Jul 07, 2026, 05:55 PM UTC

    We're observing widespread elevated latency and increased error rates across our APIs. We're actively looking into it.

  3. resolved Jul 07, 2026, 06:20 PM UTC

    We're seeing recovery, and latency and error rates have returned to normal levels. We'll continue to monitor closely.

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Minor June 24, 2026

Degraded performance

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 24, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 25, 2026, 03:07 AM UTC
Duration
5h 46m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jun 24, 2026, 09:21 PM UTC

    We’re observing elevated latency and a higher empty response rate for a subset of queries. We’re actively investigating it.

  2. resolved Jun 25, 2026, 03:07 AM UTC

    We've deployed some initial workarounds but will continue monitoring and investigating.

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Minor March 3, 2026

Degradation of /images endp...

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 03, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 03, 2026, 01:46 AM UTC
Duration
53m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Mar 03, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC

    Google just made a change to Google Images impacting a subset of /images queries. We're looking into it.

  2. resolved Mar 03, 2026, 01:46 AM UTC

    Performance is back to normal again.

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Major February 22, 2026

Increase in timeouts Google...

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 22, 2026, 08:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 22, 2026, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
9h 10m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 22, 2026, 08:20 AM UTC

    We’re observing spikes in timeouts on Google Search again, resulting in increased latency for a subset of queries.

  2. resolved Feb 22, 2026, 05:30 PM UTC

    Latency for the affected queries has come back down and things appear to have recovered.

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Minor February 18, 2026

Google Maps reviews not sho...

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 18, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 18, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
Duration
8h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 18, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC

    It seems Google isn't showing Google Maps reviews for non-logged-in users currently. We'll be monitoring this to see if it's a temporary or permanent change.

  2. resolved Feb 18, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC

    We've deployed an update to the reviews endpoint. It now pulls reviews from Google Places/Local Business profiles.

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Minor February 2, 2026

Increase in organic results...

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 05, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC
Duration
2d 2h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

    We've been getting reports that for a subset of queries users have been getting organic results full of videos. We're looking into it.

  2. resolved Feb 05, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

    It seems Google has resolved the issue

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Minor February 2, 2026

Increase in queries returni...

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 05, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC
Duration
2d 2h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

    We’ve observed an increase in queries returning 0 organic results. This currently affects a small subset of requests. We’re monitoring this closely.

  2. resolved Feb 05, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

    It seems Google has resolved the issue

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Minor January 15, 2026

Increase in timeouts

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 15, 2026, 05:15 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 16, 2026, 06:30 PM UTC
Duration
1d 13h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jan 15, 2026, 05:15 AM UTC

    We’re observing intermittent timeout spikes from google.com, impacting latency for a subset of queries. We’re looking into it.

  2. resolved Jan 16, 2026, 06:30 PM UTC

    It seems to have stabilized again.

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Minor December 28, 2025

502 bad gateway errors on ...

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 28, 2025, 01:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 28, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC
Duration
2m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Dec 28, 2025, 01:08 PM UTC

    We’re still seeing sporadic spikes in 502 errors from google.com due to infrastructure issues on Google’s end: https://downdetector.com/status/google/

  2. resolved Dec 28, 2025, 01:10 PM UTC

    Seems to be recovered for now.

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Minor December 28, 2025

502 bad gateway errors on G...

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 28, 2025, 09:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 28, 2025, 09:05 AM UTC
Duration
3m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Dec 28, 2025, 09:02 AM UTC

    We’re still seeing sporadic spikes in 502 errors from google.com due to infrastructure issues on Google’s end: https://downdetector.com/status/google/

  2. resolved Dec 28, 2025, 09:05 AM UTC

    Seems to be recovering.

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Minor December 19, 2025

We're observing intermitten...

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 19, 2025, 12:20 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 19, 2025, 01:20 PM UTC
Duration
1h
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Dec 19, 2025, 12:20 PM UTC

    We're observing intermittent 502 errors for google.com

  2. resolved Dec 19, 2025, 01:20 PM UTC

    It seems google.com is stable again.

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Major October 24, 2025

We're experiencing an outag...

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 24, 2025, 08:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 24, 2025, 10:35 PM UTC
Duration
2h 23m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Oct 24, 2025, 08:12 PM UTC

    We’re currently experiencing a partial outage and are investigating the issue. Performance may be degraded.

  2. resolved Oct 24, 2025, 10:35 PM UTC

    The API has stabilized, and we’re continuing to monitor it closely.

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Major July 17, 2025

We're experiencing an outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 17, 2025, 09:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 17, 2025, 10:55 PM UTC
Duration
1h 25m
Affected: Current status by service (API)
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 17, 2025, 09:30 PM UTC

    All endpoints are currently experiencing issues. We're looking into it.

  2. resolved Jul 17, 2025, 10:55 PM UTC

    The issues appear to have recovered. We're still investigating the root cause, but we observed a surge in timeouts from Google during the incident.

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