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openlibrary.org · last confirmed outage 14 sec ago

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Uptime, 24 hours
36.4 %
Uptime, 7 days
52.2 %
Uptime, 30 days
52.2 %

Based on 1 day of checks so far. Checks that failed because of how we test, not because of the site, are left out.

Response time, last 24 hours

2026-10-09 11:06 UTC: 627 ms2026-10-09 11:22 UTC: 630 ms2026-10-09 11:37 UTC: 668 ms2026-10-09 11:53 UTC: 696 ms2026-10-09 12:09 UTC: 630 ms2026-10-09 12:25 UTC: 622 ms2026-10-09 12:40 UTC: 657 ms2026-10-09 12:55 UTC: 641 ms2026-10-09 13:11 UTC: 636 ms2026-10-09 13:26 UTC: 800 ms2026-10-09 13:42 UTC: 686 ms2026-10-09 13:58 UTC: 653 ms2026-10-09 14:13 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:15 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:18 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:22 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:27 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:30 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:33 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:37 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:42 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:46 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:49 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:52 UTC: down2026-10-09 14:58 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:01 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:05 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:09 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:15 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:19 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:22 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:26 UTC: down2026-10-09 15:31 UTC: down
Green: response time, full height at 1030 ms or more. Red: down. Amber: not confirmed.

Response time by location, last 24 hours

LocationAverage responseReached
Berlin 1, Germany658 ms12 of 33 checks
Falkenstein, Germany658 ms12 of 33 checks
Berlin 2, Germany696 ms12 of 33 checks

Each check runs from all locations at once. A location far from the site’s servers answers later; that says nothing about the site being slow.

Outage history

Recent checks

TimeStatusLocationsResponse
2026-10-09 15:31 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:26 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:22 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:19 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:15 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:09 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:05 UTCDown3 of 3–
2026-10-09 15:01 UTCDown3 of 3–

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