Is GBIF down?

No reported issues

From status.gbif.org · checked 5 minutes ago · every 5 minutes

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As of 03:28 UTC on 12 November 2026, GBIF's status page reports no issues. Its last reported problem was on 11 November 2026: “Partially Degraded Service”, issue, for 9 min from 08:08 UTC.

Last problem: 11 Nov · 9 min
Problems, last 30 days: 25 (1 critical)
Typical incident: 10 min
Longest in 90 days: 43 h 11 min · 2 Nov

Uptime

GBIF, last 30 days

75.09 %

Oct 14 Today

Biggest dip: GBIF, 43.2 h of critical on Nov 2.

Incidents

Started in the last 7 days

FSSMTWToday

This week Week before

Latest: GBIF, issue on Nov 11.

Recovery

Median time back online

9 min

30 days ago Today

22 of 25 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.

Components 11

All online

GBIF.org
Occurrence API
Species API
Registry API
Maps API
Image cache
Dataset ingestion
Taxon API
Events API

External services 2 parts

Contentful Content Delivery API
GitHub API Requests

Last 90 days

28 incidents in 48 days tracked · no reported issues 93.0% of the time · typical incident 10 min

Aug 15 Today (UTC)

Recent incidents

Times in UTC

Nov 11
· 08:08
Issue
Partially Degraded Service 9 min
Nov 8
· 12:07
Maintenance
Taxonomy reprocessing 2 days
Nov 8
· 11:27
Issue
Taxonomy reprocessing 40 min
Nov 6
· 20:32
Maintenance
Taxonomy reprocessing 38 h 55 min
Nov 6
· 20:22
Issue
Taxonomy reprocessing 10 min
Nov 6
· 20:17
Maintenance
Taxonomy reprocessing 5 min
Nov 6
· 20:12
Major outage
Taxonomy reprocessing 5 min
Nov 6
· 20:07
Maintenance
Taxonomy reprocessing 5 min
Nov 6
· 20:02
Issue
Taxonomy reprocessing 5 min
Nov 6
· 10:02
Maintenance
Taxonomy reprocessing 10 h

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Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads GBIF’s official status page at status.gbif.org every 5 minutes and keeps 90 days of what changed. We don’t test GBIF ourselves, so a problem shows here once GBIF reports it.

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