Is FDA Open Data down right now?

As of the latest health check from 4 global regions, FDA Open Data is operational. The status badge at the top of this page reflects the most recent check — Probecast probes FDA Open Data every 5 minutes, independently of FDA Open Data's own status page.

How often is FDA Open Data down?

This month, FDA Open Data has had 12 incidents. Across the recent incidents listed on this page, the average duration is 100 minutes.

What is the average uptime of FDA Open Data in 2026?

The 30-day uptime for FDA Open Data is 99.66%. This is measured by Probecast's independent monitoring from 4 global regions.

How do I get alerted when FDA Open Data has an incident?

Create a free Probecast account, add FDA Open Data to your monitoring stack and configure alerts via email or Slack (webhooks from the Pro plan).

Which region has the fastest FDA Open Data response times?

Currently, US East has the fastest response times for FDA Open Data at 1991ms.

What endpoint does Probecast monitor for FDA Open Data?

Probecast monitors GET https://api.fda.gov/drug/event.json?limit=1 for FDA Open Data. Health checks run every 5 minutes from 4 global regions.

FDA Open Data

OperationalLast checked: —

United States·FDA Open Data

Stack Health Score

Score = 30-day uptime − penalties
Latency >500ms: −2 | >1000ms: −5
Outages this month: −2 each
Degradations this month: −1 each

82.7/100

Uptime · Latency · Incidents

For the projects you ship

How many of your clients depend on FDA Open Data?

When FDA Open Data slows down, every project that depends on it feels it at once — and the first call goes to whoever shipped it. Probecast watches the sites you ship and the providers underneath them, shows which clients an outage touches and turns each month into a report your client can trust.

One provider breaks. See every client it touches.

Ordered by how many clients it hits, so you message the right people first.

Each client's site and store, checked from up to four regions.

US West & East, Europe and Asia — a regional outage never hides.

A monthly report under your brand, reviewed by your team before it goes out.

Uptime, incidents, traffic, revenue and support — signed off by a person.

Your team scoped per client. Every change on the record.

Freelancers see only their clients; every change lands in an append-only audit log.

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Alerts land on email, Slack, push or webhooks — with the client's name on them.

99.66%

UptimeShare of checks that found this endpoint available.
Only DOWN lowers it — see /docs#uptime.

2.57s

Avg Latency

1,000+

APIs monitored

Outages

Degradations

This Month

About FDA Open Data's FDA Open Data

FDA Open Data's FDA Open Data provides data on drugs, devices, food, and adverse events for the US. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes open data through its openFDA service. The FDA Open Data is used by developers worldwide for drug data, adverse events, medical devices, food safety.

Probecast monitors the FDA Open Data from 4 global regions (US West, US East, Europe, Asia Pacific) every 5 minutes, tracking uptime, latency and regional availability. Our real-time monitoring helps developers and teams understand the current health of FDA Open Data's FDA Open Data and get alerted the moment service degrades.

Why monitor FDA Open Data?

If your product depends on FDA Open Data for critical features, an outage on FDA Open Data's side is an outage on your product. Probecast detects FDA Open Data incidents as they start, giving you time to communicate with customers, fall back to alternative services or pause background jobs gracefully.

Current status

As of the latest check, FDA Open Data is operational. The 30-day uptime is 99.66%, with 12 incidents recorded this month. Average response latency across all regions is 2.57s.