Is API down right now?

Partly. As of 2026-10-10 08:07 UTC, API has a partial outage, with an open incident: "Performance Degradation". This page reads the status again every 3 minutes.

Where does this status come from?

From SerpApi's own status page API at https://status.serpapi.com. UpButler reads it once for everyone (not once per visitor) every 3 minutes with conditional requests, and shows it unchanged: incident titles and component names are SerpApi's words. Their page covers more than this page shows; it is narrowed to the parts that concern API.

Can I get an alert when API goes down?

Yes, without an account: enter your email on this page, confirm the link we send, and you get one email when SerpApi reports an incident that affects API and one when it is over. There is also an RSS feed at https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/feed.rss. Teams on UpButler can route the same alert to Slack, Teams or a webhook.

How can my agent or app check API status?

Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/api/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"serpapi","component":"api"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.

How do I know whether an outage is mine or SerpApi's?

Add "serpapi" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while SerpApi has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.

Is API down?

API has a partial outage

Right now

Partly. Performance Degradation.

Last checked 3 min ago (2026-10-10 08:07 UTC) from status.serpapi.com · every 180s

For agents

fallback

Use a fallback, next attempt in 300s.

Up right now, same job: Tavily, Exa, Brave Search API, Firecrawl.

GET upbutler.com/status/serpapi/api/status.agent.json

MCP: upstream_status {"service":"serpapi","component":"api"}

API is one of the components SerpApi reports on its status page. Search engine results API.

Part of SerpApi status.

What SerpApi says

Partial outage· 3 open incidents

Taken as is from SerpApi's own status page API. Incident titles and component names below are theirs. Narrowed to what concerns API.

Open status.serpapi.com

What UpButler measured

There is no keyless endpoint of SerpApi that says anything useful, so UpButler does not probe it. To check your own SerpApi account, add a monitor with your key: it is yours alone and catches what a shared probe cannot.

Open at SerpApi for API

Performance Degradationidentified · impact major
Since 2026-10-06 15:51 UTC · Search API, Images Light API, News Light API, AI Overview API, Shopping Light API, Videos Light API +6
We've made several adjustments over the past 24 hours and are seeing improved success rates and response times across the affected APIs. However, performance remains degraded, and our engineers are continuing to work toward fully restoring service. Thank you for your continued patience. We'll share further updates as we make progress.
[Google Search API] Searches with advanced operators time out intermittentlyinvestigating · impact major
Since 2026-08-26 14:33 UTC · Search API
We're seeing higher error rates on advanced searches again. We're investigating.
[Google Search API] Requests timing out while using tbm=nws with advanced parametersinvestigating · impact major
Since 2026-08-26 14:30 UTC · Search API
We're continuing to investigate this issue. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have any progress or new information to share.

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API: what SerpApi lists

1 of 1 not operational

APIPartial outage

API incidents, last 90 days

2026-07-13: no record
2026-07-14: no record
2026-07-15: no record
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2026-09-25: no record
2026-09-26: no record
2026-09-27: no record
2026-09-28: no record
2026-09-29: no record
2026-09-30: no record
2026-10-01: major incident
2026-10-02: major incident
2026-10-03: major incident
2026-10-04: major incident
2026-10-05: major incident
2026-10-06: major incident
2026-10-07: major incident
2026-10-08: no incident reported
2026-10-09: no incident reported
2026-10-10: no incident reported

2026-07-137 of 10 days with an incidenttoday

Each bar is a day, coloured by the worst incident SerpApi reported for API. It is their incident record, not a measurement of uptime.

Incidents: 1; 1 major or critical
Typical time to resolve: —; median, needs 3 incidents
Nine in ten within: —; 90th percentile
Longest: 7 days; record since 2026-10-01

Started (UTC)	Incident	Impact	Lasted
2026-10-01 09:15	[Google Search API] [Google Light API] Performance Degradation	major	7 days

Get alerted when API goes down

No account. One email when SerpApi reports an incident that affects API, one when it is over. You confirm the address first, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Or follow the RSS feed. On UpButler? Add SerpApi as a dependency to route it to Slack, Teams or a webhook.

Status badge

Show API's current status in a README or an internal wiki. It updates by itself.

[![API status](https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/badge.svg?component=api)](https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/api)

Tell your outage from SerpApi's

Declare that your project depends on API. When one of your monitors fails while SerpApi has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.

npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.

Start free How it works

upbutler.yaml

# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
  - service: serpapi
    components: ["API"]

Ask before you retry

curl -s https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/api/status.agent.json

status.agent.json (live)

{
  "schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
  "service": "serpapi",
  "component": {
    "slug": "api",
    "name": "API"
  },
  "verdict": "fallback",
  "status": "partial_outage",
  "reason": "Performance Degradation",
  "retryAfterSec": 300,
  "incident": {
    "title": "Performance Degradation",
    "url": "https://status.serpapi.com/incidents/5pybr6gr3dq4"
  },
  "alternatives": [
    "tavily",
    "exa",
    "brave-search",
    "firecrawl"
  ],
  "probe": null
}

Questions

Is API down right now?: Partly. As of 2026-10-10 08:07 UTC, API has a partial outage, with an open incident: "Performance Degradation". This page reads the status again every 3 minutes.
Where does this status come from?: From SerpApi's own status page API at https://status.serpapi.com. UpButler reads it once for everyone (not once per visitor) every 3 minutes with conditional requests, and shows it unchanged: incident titles and component names are SerpApi's words. Their page covers more than this page shows; it is narrowed to the parts that concern API.
Can I get an alert when API goes down?: Yes, without an account: enter your email on this page, confirm the link we send, and you get one email when SerpApi reports an incident that affects API and one when it is over. There is also an RSS feed at https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/feed.rss. Teams on UpButler can route the same alert to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
How can my agent or app check API status?: Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/serpapi/api/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"serpapi","component":"api"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
How do I know whether an outage is mine or SerpApi's?: Add "serpapi" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while SerpApi has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.

Also check

UpButler is not affiliated with SerpApi. Status and incident text belong to SerpApi and are read from their public status source; the probe result is UpButler's own measurement.