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OpenRouter is down
- gitmagic 1y agoBeen down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.
- rozenmd 1y agoFrankly I prefer that than a green tick and "All Systems Operational"
- gitmagic 1y agoTrue, that happens far too often.
- euazOn 1y agoCould that be due to contractual clauses for uptime in SLAs?
- baq 1y agoyellow: "volcano has erupted under the datacenter and it's being flooded with lava. engineers are investigating" red: "datacenter has been subject to multiple nuclear strikes. next update in 30 min"
- euazOn 1y agoFYI, they (oddly enough) communicate mostly through Discord, and they have said they are investigating the issue at 10:30am UTC - 13 minutes after the first user reports.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- vintagedave 1y agoOne of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. I was considering using it for an uptime-critical project of mine. The post-mortem will be worth watching.
- logicchains 1y ago>One of OpenRouter's main points is that it allows you to bypass individual AI vendors' downtimes. Only if you're using a model hosted by multiple providers (e.g. an open model).
- gkbrk 1y agoNope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude. The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.
- simianwords 1y agoInteresting. I would think they would safeguard core IP from competitors.
- OJFord 1y agoAlso you might be fine with routing to a different model.
- drbscl 1y agoTo be fair, it is still useful on this front; it's much faster than waiting for requests to fail and fallback to a backup yourself. You still need another backup provider or two for cases like this though.
- SamLeBarbare 1y agoOpenRouter: eliminating Single Points of Failure… by introducing a beautifully centralized one.
- lordofgibbons 1y agoTheir uptime is still infinitely better than any single provider though.
- lvl155 1y agoHow can a router be down this long? I would have to reconsider using them moving forward.
- gitmagic 1y ago[flagged]
- jug 1y agoShould be coming up now.
- rvz 1y agoLooking forward to the postmortem.
- blitzar 1y agoCan someone power it off and back on again please?
- fuckaj 1y ago[flagged]
- thevinchi 1y agoInteresting timing. I was just reading about a new self-hosted router [1] today. Now I’ll definitely need to check it out. https://github.com/felixszeto/NiceAPI https://github.com/felixszeto/NiceAPI
- andrewinardeer 1y agoSo it seems you can't subscribe via RSS. Shame.
- rozenmd 1y agoHey, I run the underlying status page service - I'll add RSS!
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- rozenmd 1y agoYou can now subscribe to their RSS feed on https://status.openrouter.ai/ https://status.openrouter.ai/
- andrewinardeer 1y agoThank you for waving your magic wand!
- numlocked 1y agoHi folks -- I'm Chris from OpenRouter. This one hurts. We're back, but our database was down for about 45 minutes, which caused user and credit lookups to fail, and took down the API. We are investigating why, and of course going to look into improving durability so this failure mode can't happen again. We will share a post-mortem on the site when we have finished our investigation. I'm sorry to our users who count on us.