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    Embedly outage history

    38 recorded Embedly incidents since March 2015, with official updates, affected components, duration and resolution information.

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    API Latency

    Started May 26, 2026 at 10:21 AM UTC · 6h 26m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    DisplayEmbedExtract
    1. May 26, 2026 at 1:21 PM UTCidentified

      The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

    2. May 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    3. May 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    5XX errors on Extract/Oembed calls, latency

    Started May 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM UTC · 29m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. May 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    2. May 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM UTCidentified

      The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

    3. May 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Embed.ly no longer supports animated GIFs for free Cards usage.

    Started March 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC · Ongoing

    Pending
    1. March 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTCmonitoring

      Update to Animated GIF Support in Cards As part of ongoing infrastructure cost management, we are discontinuing support for animated GIFs in the free Cards product. Animated GIFs will now display as static images (first frame). This change does not affect paid plans. Please contact customer support ([email protected]) or visit support.embed.ly if you would like to support these image types moving forward, we can get you set up with a paid subscription plan. We apologize for any inconvenience.

    invalid /1/display and image proxy 401 errors

    Started February 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTC · 10m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Display
    1. February 26, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    2. February 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM UTCresolved

      Apologies for the invalid 401 errors. A migration of our API key lookup service was the root cause, and this has been resolved.

    Embedly API Outage, 502 errors

    Started October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM UTC · 6h 1m

    OutageCritical incident
    Affected components
    DisplayEmbedExtract
    1. October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently investigating this issue.

    2. October 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM UTCidentified

      Embedly is currently impacted by the AWS outage impacting the us-east-1 region.

    3. October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    X (FKA Twitter) incident

    Started May 20, 2024 at 4:38 PM UTC · 43m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    Embed
    1. May 20, 2024 at 4:38 PM UTCidentified

      We've identified an issue impacting x, formerly known as twitter, embeds. A fix is being deployed shortly, and we'll continue to monitor.

    2. May 20, 2024 at 5:21 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    app.embed.ly maintenance

    Started April 19, 2024 at 1:36 AM UTC · 2h 20m

    Pending
    Affected components
    App Dashboard
    1. April 19, 2024 at 1:36 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are performing scheduled maintenance on app.embed.ly. Users won't be able to login for the maintenance period.

    2. April 19, 2024 at 3:57 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    We are aware of a brief API outage lasting for about 4 minutes 15/11/2023, 1:51PM PST.

    Started November 15, 2023 at 10:18 PM UTC · 5h 4m

    Pending
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. November 15, 2023 at 10:18 PM UTCmonitoring

      The issue has been resolved, but we are watching closely.

    2. November 16, 2023 at 3:22 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Intermittent YouTube provider latency

    Started October 15, 2022 at 4:49 PM UTC · 6h 2m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. October 15, 2022 at 4:49 PM UTCmonitoring

      Embed.ly is currently monitoring a situation where we can observe higher than usual intermittent latency coming from the YouTube upstreams which may impact Embed/Extract performance.

    2. October 15, 2022 at 10:50 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    i-cdn.embed.ly, i.embed.ly image links

    Started August 19, 2022 at 9:59 PM UTC · 14h 25m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    Display
    1. August 19, 2022 at 9:59 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are investigating an issue related to 525 errors upstream from our Display image links.

    2. August 19, 2022 at 11:19 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    3. August 19, 2022 at 11:19 PM UTCmonitoring

      We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

    4. August 20, 2022 at 12:24 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Images Missing

    Started August 12, 2022 at 4:19 PM UTC · 1h 49m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    Extract
    1. August 12, 2022 at 4:19 PM UTCidentified

      We've identified an issue with image fetching with our Cards or Extract product. We're working behind the scenes to fix this bug as soon as possible.

    2. August 12, 2022 at 4:19 PM UTCidentified

      We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

    3. August 12, 2022 at 4:37 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    4. August 12, 2022 at 6:08 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    High Latency

    Started March 11, 2021 at 4:29 AM UTC · 17h 41m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. March 11, 2021 at 4:29 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently investigating this issue.

    2. March 11, 2021 at 4:29 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are continuing to investigate this issue.

    3. March 11, 2021 at 10:09 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    API/Cards affected by Cloudflare Outage

    Started July 17, 2020 at 9:37 PM UTC · 2h 36m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    DisplayEmbedEmbedly CDNExtract
    1. July 17, 2020 at 9:37 PM UTCidentified

      Cloudflare is experiencing downtime at the moment, affecting our ability to properly route requests to our API/Cards services. We are waiting on an update from Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/) regarding expected resolution.

    2. July 17, 2020 at 10:36 PM UTCmonitoring

      Cloudflare reported that the root cause has been addressed, and we're seeing recovery in API/Cards service health as well. We will keep monitoring.

    3. July 18, 2020 at 12:13 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Twitter Metadata Availability

    Started July 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM UTC · 10d 3h

    Pending
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. July 6, 2020 at 6:59 PM UTCidentified

      We're working on a fix for Twitter metadata which can be missing from Embed and Extract content. This is related to a change in Twitter policy, and we're working quickly to resolve this issue if possible.

    2. July 16, 2020 at 10:11 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    3. July 16, 2020 at 10:11 PM UTCpostmortem

      Twitter made a policy change to restrict the availability of tweet metadata, like thumbnail images, but most twitter functionality has been restored to the best of our ability.

    5/15/20 - Service Degraded

    Started May 15, 2020 at 7:40 AM UTC · 3d 10h

    Pending
    Affected components
    EmbedExtract
    1. May 15, 2020 at 7:40 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently experiencing networking failures in our cloud infrastructure, severely degrading our ability to provide API and Cards services. More updates to follow.

    2. May 15, 2020 at 12:37 PM UTCidentified

      We are actively working with AWS to resolve cloud infrastructure issues, which is still preventing us from reliably serving API (extract, embed) and Cards functionality.

    3. May 16, 2020 at 5:44 AM UTCidentified

      We're working around the clock to resolve this service outage and will continue investing all of our available resources towards restoring normalcy over the weekend. Thank you for your patience as we work through this incident.

    4. May 16, 2020 at 6:10 PM UTCidentified

      We've begun to recover API functionality. You may encounter periods of degraded service performance as we move towards full recovery. Thank you for your continued patience as we work through this incident.

    5. May 16, 2020 at 8:11 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    6. May 17, 2020 at 5:22 PM UTCmonitoring

      Core Embed/Extract functionality has been restored.

    7. May 17, 2020 at 7:18 PM UTCmonitoring

      We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

    8. May 18, 2020 at 6:26 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved. If you have any further issues please contact us.

    YouTube Embeds

    Started December 4, 2019 at 4:07 AM UTC · 1d 14h

    Pending
    Affected components
    Embed
    1. December 4, 2019 at 4:07 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently investigating an issue with YouTube embed functionality

    2. December 5, 2019 at 6:16 PM UTCresolved

      We have recovered from an outage affecting YouTube embeds which we determined was caused by upstream rate-limiting from YouTube's servers. We now have a solution in place, but are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Please keep us posted at https://support.embed.ly about any further issues you may experience.

    Cloudflare System Status

    Started July 2, 2019 at 2:04 PM UTC · 3h 9m

    Pending
    1. July 2, 2019 at 2:04 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently tracking a Cloudflare incident that may impact our API performance for some customers: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr

    2. July 2, 2019 at 5:13 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Elevated response times

    Started August 6, 2018 at 2:14 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Display
    1. August 6, 2018 at 2:14 PM UTCresolved

      A connectivity issue between backend components was causing elevated response times in the Display product for about an hour this morning and has been resolved.

    Display API

    Started October 2, 2017 at 8:10 PM UTC · 2h 3m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. October 2, 2017 at 8:10 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are looking into an issue with 502s for uncached URLs to the Display API.

    2. October 2, 2017 at 10:13 PM UTCresolved

      Everything is back to normal.

    High latency

    Started January 26, 2017 at 9:16 PM UTC · 7h 43m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. January 26, 2017 at 9:16 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are experiencing high latency on the Embed, Extract APIs at this time. We are currently reviewing the issue and hope to back to normal soon.

    2. January 26, 2017 at 9:30 PM UTCmonitoring

      We are reviewing a spike in our data service that caused API latency. Response times are returning to normal, but we will continue to monitor.

    3. January 27, 2017 at 4:59 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.