Crossref incident

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Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Crossref experienced a critical incident on October 4, 2026 affecting Test admin tool, lasting 1d 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 04, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 05, 2026, 12:49 PM UTC
Duration
1d 1h
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 04, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC

Affected components

Test admin tool

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 04, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC

    The test admin system has been down since about 09:30 UTC, so members will see a 503 Service Unavailable message when visiting test.crossref.org. We're investigating. -GH

  2. monitoring Oct 04, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC

    The test server ran out of memory and stopped responding; we restarted it, and it's working again. If you had problems depositing or querying in the test system during this time, please try again. We'll monitor. -GH

  3. monitoring Oct 04, 2026, 01:18 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Oct 05, 2026, 12:49 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.