User reports
0
Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
All services / Education
Is OpenAlex down?
Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.
Live diagnosis
Is it just me?
Finds the most likely layer (the service, your ISP or area, DNS, or your Wi-Fi) and gives two steps to try.
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Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsAll clear · Near baseline
DNS (1.1.1.1 · Google)—
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Connection—
Upstream—
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Live outage map
No reports in the last 24 hours.
Dots are whole states, provinces or countries, never exact locations. We never store IP addresses. Every report with a known place can appear on the map. Updates every minute.
What's broken
Recent reports
Each row is a time, a coarse place, and a problem type from a new report. Optional notes stay private. Places with fewer than 3 reports in the last 8 days are shown without a location.
No public reports yet.
Our checks
Reaching it
Last checked 2 hr ago. Last stored result reached it in 277 ms.
Official status
All clear
No active incidents in the official feed Official status page
Reports and checks
Numbers behind the chart
| Time (UTC) | Reports | Baseline | Latency | Failed checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 303 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 153 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 200 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 78 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 88 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 745 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 164 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 214 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 98 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 104 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 283 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 204 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 141 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 242 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 198 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 394 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 168 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 110 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 254 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 284 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 203 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 132 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 82 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 268 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 265 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 89 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 257 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 166 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 208 ms | 0 |
Reliability
100% uptime · No user reports in the last 24h
90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 8 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.
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Past outages
No outages on record for OpenAlex yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.
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About OpenAlex
We track OpenAlex (openalex.org) as part of the Education group. OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
OpenAlex publishes an official status page at status.openalex.org; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
Common problems for education services: learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration.
Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 8 days of checks. No public incidents logged since monitoring began 8 days ago.
Response time over the last 24 hours: 204 ms average, 82–465 ms range across 13 successful checks.
Questions
Is OpenAlex down right now?
Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.
When was OpenAlex last down?
We have not recorded a public OpenAlex incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.
What is OpenAlex's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 8 days of checks.
How fast does OpenAlex respond?
204 ms on average over the last 24 hours (82–465 ms).
Does OpenAlex have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.openalex.org.
OpenAlex not working for me but the status is fine. What now?
It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For education services, watch for learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration. If many people report OpenAlex here at once, the problem is on OpenAlex's side.
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Community comments
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