# crates.io

- Domain: crates.io · Category: devtools
- Status page: https://status.crates.io (polled every 10 minutes; now operational)
- Incidents archived: 48 (23 major/critical, 17 maintenances), history since 2019-03-21
- Last 90 days: 0 incidents; open now: 0
- Silently edited or deleted incidents: 0

## How crates.io reports incidents

Not enough incidents to compare yet (needs 20 in a year and 10 with full update detail; has 8 and 48).

## Dependencies (observed)

| Depends on | Signal | Blamed in | Hosting | Integration | Events | Declared |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GitHub | high | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |  |
| Heroku | medium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |  |

## Incidents by year

| Year | Incidents | Major/critical | Maintenance | Median duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 40 min |
| 2020 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 36 min |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 40 min |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 43 min |
| 2023 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1.3 h |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 58 min |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1.3 h |
| 2026 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1.2 h |

## Pricing

_No structured pricing extracted yet._

## Recent notable changes

| When (UTC) | Change | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-07-11 14:22 UTC | [Major incident: DoS Attack](https://rewindex.com/change/ib0ff0ba57070ce.md) | pending |
| 2025-05-13 07:37 UTC | [Major incident: Crate indexes not updating](https://rewindex.com/change/iabbec495779144.md) | pending |
| 2024-03-22 13:04 UTC | [Critical incident: crates.io unreachable](https://rewindex.com/change/ic2a18ceb3e6b88.md) | pending |
| 2024-03-22 07:11 UTC | [Critical incident: crates.io unavailable](https://rewindex.com/change/i0b0c43319dabae.md) | pending |
| 2024-02-14 19:30 UTC | [Major incident: Intermittent timeouts on API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/change/i88a77cdc772de0.md) | pending |
| 2024-02-14 18:45 UTC | [Major incident: Intermittent timeouts on API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/change/i4474d3567064b4.md) | pending |
| 2023-12-27 14:24 UTC | [Critical incident: Failing requests to crates.io](https://rewindex.com/change/ic4068b14a66cf4.md) | pending |
| 2023-11-16 19:37 UTC | [Major incident: Faulty deployment](https://rewindex.com/change/i45d15820d8e58b.md) | pending |
| 2023-10-18 19:03 UTC | [Major incident: Failing requests and timeouts](https://rewindex.com/change/i8d5622032eaeb8.md) | pending |
| 2023-07-20 12:17 UTC | [Major incident: Broken download links](https://rewindex.com/change/i18ee0d200c1269.md) | pending |

Full timeline: [crates.io changes](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/changes.md)
## Silent edits and deletions

_None._

## Page change history

_None._

_No page changes since the first snapshot._

## Latest 48 incidents

| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration | Edited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-07-11 14:22 UTC | [DoS Attack](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/h2fxgl2jtc5q.md) | major | 1.3 h |  |
| 2026-06-14 01:20 UTC | [crates.io slowness](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/qyy7znxcx2pv.md) | minor | 33 min |  |
| 2026-05-23 18:47 UTC | [Reverse dependency pages unavailable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/pbb64q5j62d0.md) | minor | 3 d |  |
| 2026-05-20 15:52 UTC | [Degraded performance on crates.io](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/2jw0bxlqqz5s.md) | none | 1.1 h |  |
| 2026-04-14 20:48 UTC | [Git index slow to update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/1mrysjp8xt11.md) | minor | 2.9 h |  |
| 2026-02-12 19:36 UTC | [Git index slow to update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/k7nshv2lmvdn.md) | minor | 10 min |  |
| 2025-11-10 23:56 UTC | [Degraded performance on crates.io](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/dnj9h8fzkqsn.md) | minor | 1.3 h |  |
| 2025-11-01 03:15 UTC | [Git index slow to update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/1cx4t8mltfmp.md) | minor | 3.4 h |  |
| 2025-09-02 22:48 UTC | [Sparse Index CDN Invalidations Slow to Update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/324slkv01rb0.md) | minor | 45 min |  |
| 2025-08-12 21:47 UTC | [Git index slow to update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/mj76wpt5mk61.md) | minor | 4.1 h |  |
| 2025-05-13 07:37 UTC | [Crate indexes not updating](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/f6qytn6kfvh3.md) | major | 7 min |  |
| 2024-05-20 11:17 UTC | [Database upgrade](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/dj1bygxvsx67.md) | minor | 1.2 h |  |
| 2024-03-22 13:04 UTC | [crates.io unreachable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/7b982959x1y3.md) | critical | 22 min |  |
| 2024-03-22 07:11 UTC | [crates.io unavailable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/1dnh8hwj7q81.md) | critical | 45 min |  |
| 2024-03-14 13:17 UTC | [crates.io database maintenance](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/8s0r9knkkgl4.md) | none | 23 h |  |
| 2024-02-14 19:30 UTC | [Intermittent timeouts on API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/f5qr72pvqxwl.md) | major | 7.2 h |  |
| 2024-02-14 18:45 UTC | [Intermittent timeouts on API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/t49v2pfpv0vl.md) | major | 40 min |  |
| 2023-12-27 14:24 UTC | [Failing requests to crates.io](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/x51zgxx2mp6k.md) | critical | 2.8 h |  |
| 2023-12-20 14:31 UTC | [crates.io database maintenance](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/fsnm8d4wgx7g.md) | none | 21 h |  |
| 2023-11-16 19:37 UTC | [Faulty deployment](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/vth07cjjcr80.md) | major | -758 min |  |
| 2023-10-18 19:03 UTC | [Failing requests and timeouts](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/fsrmr4bk8trw.md) | major | 12 h |  |
| 2023-07-21 09:28 UTC | [Delays in sparse index updates](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/vnyld4bt86p8.md) | minor | 20 min |  |
| 2023-07-21 02:45 UTC | [Delays in sparse index update](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/34038dqnh1f4.md) | minor | 21 min |  |
| 2023-07-20 12:17 UTC | [Broken download links](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/qtcxln295f0n.md) | major | 2.0 h |  |
| 2023-04-15 06:16 UTC | [Elevated API Errors](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/5l2krndnttc8.md) | none | 18 min |  |
| 2023-02-08 16:34 UTC | [Increased response times](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/xwhjjvxcybc0.md) | minor | 16 min |  |
| 2023-01-25 09:40 UTC | [static.crates.io not resolving](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/dl21vcm8pt98.md) · [Azure outage](https://rewindex.com/events/2023-01-25-azure) | critical | 38 min |  |
| 2023-01-23 10:00 UTC | [Background updates failing](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/scjr9prfz1pc.md) | minor | 0 min |  |
| 2023-01-13 13:45 UTC | [Crates.io Index Normalization](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/01174hg7hdmc.md) | minor | 20 d |  |
| 2022-12-05 21:06 UTC | [Crate publishes delayed](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/cmm3d2mhvy2g.md) | minor | 39 min |  |
| 2022-03-17 15:24 UTC | [Delayed crate publishes](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/ppmrn8h693t0.md) | minor | 1.1 h |  |
| 2022-02-24 16:54 UTC | [crates.io unavailable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/1mqxfrx56qdh.md) | critical | 43 min |  |
| 2021-12-22 12:27 UTC | [Request timeouts/Slow responses](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/r6qckdr6wtq1.md) · [AWS us-east-1 outage](https://rewindex.com/events/2021-12-22-aws-us-east-1) | major | 2.7 h |  |
| 2021-07-07 16:59 UTC | [Intermittent issues with the Rust website](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/dy2wwrb2flnf.md) | none | 1.0 h |  |
| 2021-04-25 09:52 UTC | [crates.io not reachable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/3l1gl6nyhdln.md) | critical | 10 min |  |
| 2021-04-18 20:37 UTC | [crates.io unavailable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/kqjmtfy0sx9d.md) | major | -47 min |  |
| 2021-03-24 09:08 UTC | [crates.io unavailable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/h990dbtzpcg9.md) | critical | 19 min |  |
| 2020-10-29 09:45 UTC | [crates.io failed to serve requests](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/yms1rdmr8h1z.md) | none | -23 min |  |
| 2020-09-11 00:37 UTC | [Cargo error when downloading crates from our CDN](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/hbrpxrpbsdc8.md) | major | 5 d |  |
| 2020-06-15 18:10 UTC | [docs.rs outage](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/t6cppvmmnv02.md) | critical | 37 min |  |
| 2020-06-12 18:59 UTC | [crates.io outage](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/fpxfytmm3bgl.md) | major | 22 min |  |
| 2020-06-12 12:41 UTC | [docs.rs unreachable](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/cbnxbyj8hczg.md) | critical | 35 min |  |
| 2020-06-06 10:51 UTC | [docs.rs fails to build new releases](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/npxr8t10g7yp.md) | major | 44 min |  |
| 2020-03-16 16:53 UTC | [Increased errors while connecting to crates.io](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/ty016p23y1v1.md) · [Heroku outage](https://rewindex.com/events/2020-03-16-heroku) | major | 13 min |  |
| 2019-12-05 22:21 UTC | [Increased Error Rate](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/x1fwbkm1svk9.md) | critical | 37 min |  |
| 2019-08-18 13:13 UTC | [Degraded performance](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/z8h93v5hytrp.md) | minor | 42 min |  |
| 2019-08-14 18:15 UTC | [Delay in index updates](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/l61wf61w2hdy.md) | none | 3.1 h |  |
| 2019-07-22 16:29 UTC | [Delay in index updates due to GitHub outage](https://rewindex.com/company/crates-io/incidents/xghhl2kqdftn.md) | none | 0 min |  |


## Charts

### Chart data: crates.io status incidents per year
Grey: all non-maintenance incidents. Orange: major or critical. Years before Oct 2026 come from the vendor’s own status history.

| Year | Incidents | Major/critical |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 |
| 2020 | 7 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 12 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026 | 6 | 1 |

### Chart data: Incidents per month, last 36 months
By impact as reported by the vendor. Maintenance excluded.

| Month | Impact | Incidents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023-10 | major | 1 |
| 2023-11 | major | 1 |
| 2023-12 | critical | 1 |
| 2023-12 | none | 1 |
| 2024-02 | major | 2 |
| 2024-03 | critical | 2 |
| 2024-03 | none | 1 |
| 2024-05 | minor | 1 |
| 2025-05 | major | 1 |
| 2025-08 | minor | 1 |
| 2025-09 | minor | 1 |
| 2025-11 | minor | 2 |
| 2026-02 | minor | 1 |
| 2026-04 | minor | 1 |
| 2026-05 | minor | 1 |
| 2026-05 | none | 1 |
| 2026-06 | minor | 1 |
| 2026-07 | major | 1 |

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