Serper incident

Elevated Tail Latency /search

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Serper experienced a minor incident on August 31, 2026 affecting Current status by service (API), lasting 2h 5m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 31, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 31, 2026, 04:05 PM UTC
Duration
2h 5m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 31, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Current status by service (API)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 31, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC

    We're observing elevated latencies across our APIs. We're looking into it.

  2. investigating Aug 31, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC

    We’re observing elevated tail latency on the /search endpoint. We’re investigating.

  3. resolved Aug 31, 2026, 04:05 PM UTC

    Repeated non-generic queries sent within a short time window will continue to see higher latency due to changes by Google.