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Check the real-time statuses of VA’s public APIs in their sandbox and production environments. Subscribe to updates via email if you would like to receive notifications whenever our developer support team creates, updates, or resolves an incident.

Please note: Major outages are outages that impact all users, no matter the duration. Incident reports are filed for outages that last more than 30 minutes, sporadic outages that cause repeated issues with our APIs, and outages that cause platform-wide impacts. We file updates to incident reports when there is new information to share.

Address Validation API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Appeals Status API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Benefits Claims API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Benefits Intake API - v0 Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Benefits Intake API - v1 Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Benefits Reference Data API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Clinical Health API (FHIR) Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Community Care Eligibility API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Decision Reviews API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Facilities API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Forms API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Guaranty Remittance API Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Loan Guaranty API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Patient Health API (FHIR) Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Provider Directory API Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Production Operational

VA Letter Generator API Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Veteran Confirmation API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Veteran Verification API Operational

Production Environment Operational

Sandbox Environment Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Benefits Claims API planned outage Aug 10, 21:00-22:00 EDT

VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from 9:00pm-10:00pm ET. This maintenance affects the Benefits Claims API in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Posted on Aug 8, 09:47 EDT

Address Validation and Veteran Confirmation APIs planned outage Aug 12, 20:30 - Aug 14, 12:30 EDT

VA systems are undergoing maintenance starting on Friday, August 12, 2022 @ 8:30pm ET through Sunday, August 14, 2022 @ 12:30pm ET. This maintenance affects the Address Validation and Veteran Confirmation APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Posted on Aug 9, 09:19 EDT

Appeals, Benefits, and Veteran Verification APIs planned outage Aug 13, 03:00-06:00 EDT

VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 3:00am - 6:00am ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, Benefits Claims/RefData, and Veteran Verification APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Posted on Aug 8, 09:48 EDT

Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage Aug 14, 15:00-19:00 EDT

VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Sunday, August 14, 2022 from 3:00pm-7:00pm ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, and Benefits Claims APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Posted on Aug 8, 09:49 EDT

Clinical Health and Patient Health APIs planned outage Aug 21, 10:00-16:30 EDT

VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Sunday, August 21, 2022 from 10:00am-4:30pm ET. This maintenance affects the Clinical Health and Patient Health APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Posted on Aug 8, 09:35 EDT

Past Incidents

Aug 10, 2022

No incidents reported today.

Aug 9, 2022

No incidents reported.

Aug 8, 2022

No incidents reported.

Aug 7, 2022

Appeals, Benefits, and Veteran Verification APIs planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 7, 12:30 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 5, 22:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance from Friday, August 5, 2022 @ 10:00pm through Sunday, August 7, 2022 @ 12:30pm ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, Benefits Claims/RefData, and Veteran Verification APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 19, 15:53 EDT

Aug 6, 2022

Authentication and authorization services planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 6, 05:01 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 6, 04:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Saturday, August 6, 2022 from 4:00am-5:00am ET. This maintenance affects some authentication and authorization services for the Benefits Claims, Community Care Eligibility, Veteran Verification, and Patient Health APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Aug 2, 14:41 EDT

Aug 5, 2022

Aug 4, 2022

No incidents reported.

Aug 3, 2022

No incidents reported.

Aug 2, 2022

No incidents reported.

Aug 1, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jul 31, 2022

Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 31, 19:00 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 31, 15:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Sunday, July 31, 2022 from 3:00pm-7:00pm ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, and Benefits Claims APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 28, 10:22 EDT

Appeals, Benefits, and Veteran Verification APIs planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 31, 04:00 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 30, 21:01 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance from Saturday, July 30, 2022 @ 9:00pm through Sunday, July 31, 2022 @ 4:00am ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, Benefits Claims/RefData, and Veteran Verification APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 28, 13:37 EDT

Jul 30, 2022

Community Care Eligibility API planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 30, 21:01 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 30, 12:04 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance from Saturday, July 30, 2022 @ 9:00am ET through 9:00pm ET. This maintenance affects the Community Care Eligibility API in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 30, 12:02 EDT

Community Care Eligibility API Partial Outage in Production

Resolved - This incident has been resolved and converted to a maintenance notification.
Jul 30, 12:05 EDT

Identified - The source of the upstream issue impacting the Community Care Eligibility API has been identified. A migration of the upstream system is underway and scheduled to complete by 21:00 EDT.
Jul 30, 11:58 EDT

Investigating - The Community Care Eligibility API in Production is affected by an unexpected outage event in its upstream dependencies, resulting in a partial outage. This issue has been reported and we'll provide updates as they become available.
Jul 30, 10:41 EDT

Appeals, Benefits, and Veteran Verification APIs planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 30, 06:00 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 30, 03:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 3:00am - 6:00am ET. This maintenance affects the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, Benefits Claims/RefData, and Veteran Verification APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 19, 16:08 EDT

Authentication and authorization services planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 30, 05:01 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 30, 04:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 4:00am-5:00am ET. This maintenance affects some authentication and authorization services for the Benefits Claims, Community Care Eligibility, Veteran Verification, and Patient Health APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 27, 09:37 EDT

Jul 29, 2022

No incidents reported.

Jul 28, 2022

Loan Guaranty API planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 28, 02:02 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 27, 23:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 from 11:00pm-2:00am ET. This maintenance affects the Loan Guaranty API in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 19, 16:04 EDT

Jul 27, 2022

Benefits Claims API planned outage

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 27, 22:00 EDT

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 27, 21:00 EDT

Scheduled - VA systems are undergoing maintenance on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 from 9:00pm-10:00pm ET. This maintenance affects the Benefits Claims API in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs will remain in normal service.
Jul 19, 16:03 EDT