Is Ensembl Down?
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Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent completion of the Human Genome Project
http://www.ensembl.org/
0 recorded outage reports in the displayed 24-hour window.
The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.
Estimated down reports for Ensembl — last 24 hours
Not enough Google Trends data is available for this service yet.
No user-submitted outage reports in the last 24 hours.
Ensembl website uptime and response time
Website responded successfully HTTP 200. Last checked 2026-10-19 05:07:02 UTC.
Checked address: http://www.ensembl.org/
DNS lookup: 104 ms · TCP connection: 77 ms · TLS handshake: unknown ms.
100%
Successful website checks (24h)
3 successful / 3 measurable checks
261 ms
Median response time
501 ms
95th percentile response time
0 failed checks; 0 restricted checks. Restricted checks are excluded from the success rate. Gaps are unknown. Response time measures receipt of HTTP headers, not full page load. Checks run from one US monitoring server and do not verify sign-in, API, or app features. These sampled results are separate from down reports and Google activity.
Evidence behind the status
Website reachable in latest check. The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.
- Official provider feed: not available for this service.
- Direct website measurements: 3 checks in the last 24 hours.
- Google Trends estimate: 0 samples; last checked Unknown.
- Autocomplete: 0 recent query observations. Suggestions are not individual down reports.
Sources measure different things. A reachable homepage can coexist with login or API failures. Missing evidence stays unknown.
Official component status
No mapped official components are available for this product. Parent-company status is not substituted for product status.
Official incident timeline
No product-matched incidents are available in the collected provider history. This does not prove that no incident occurred.
Recovery tracker
No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.
0 consecutive successful checks within the last 30 minutes. These checks measure the public website; they cannot establish recovery of every feature.
Slowdown detection
More successful checks are needed to establish a response-time baseline.
Recent median: unknown · Earlier median: 261 ms. Flags require at least 3 recent and 5 earlier checks, more than twice the baseline, and at least 500 ms extra latency. Slowness alone does not identify server load as the cause.
Emerging down-report signals
No recent problem-related autocomplete suggestions have been collected for this service.
US English Google autocomplete suggestions help discover problem patterns. They can persist after an incident and do not measure report counts or prove an outage. New phrases require corroboration before accelerating Trends collection.
Is it down in your region?
Run one public website check from a community probe. Results describe that probe, not every user in a country.
Powered by Globalping. Results are reused for 15 minutes. Shared free allowance: up to 60 tests per hour. A successful website check does not verify authenticated app or API functions.
Infrastructure incident context
Check whether broader platform incidents coincide with the problem you are seeing. These providers are context, not verified dependencies of Ensembl.
No active incidents in this collected feed.
More about Ensembl service
Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent completion of the Human Genome Project. After 10 years in existence, Ensembl's aim remains to provide a centralized resource for geneticists, molecular biologists and other researchers studying the genomes of our own species and other vertebrates and model organisms. Ensembl is one of several well known genome browsers for the retrieval of genomic information.