Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 15, 19:01 EDT
Scheduled - A system dependency will undergo maintenance starting Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 7:00pm ET through Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 7:00pm ET. This may affect the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, and Benefits Claims APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs should remain in normal service.

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Uptime over the past 90 days. View historical uptime.
Production Environment Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.89 % uptime
Today
API Gateway Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Address Validation API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Appeals Status API Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Benefits Claims v0 API Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.42 % uptime
Today
Benefits Claims v1 API Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.43 % uptime
Today
Benefits Intake v0 API Operational
90 days ago
99.94 % uptime
Today
Benefits Intake v1 API Operational
90 days ago
99.94 % uptime
Today
Community Care Eligibility API Operational
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Claims Attributes V1 API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Decision Reviews API Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.94 % uptime
Today
Facilities API ? Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Forms API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Loan Guaranty V1 Operational
90 days ago
99.78 % uptime
Today
Veteran Confirmation API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Veteran Verification API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Veterans Health API (FHIR) Operational
90 days ago
99.92 % uptime
Today
Sandbox Environment Operational
90 days ago
99.87 % uptime
Today
API Gateway (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Address Validation API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Appeals Status API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Benefits Claims V0 API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.95 % uptime
Today
Benefits Claims V1 API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.94 % uptime
Today
Benefits Intake V0 API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.42 % uptime
Today
Benefits Intake V1 API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.41 % uptime
Today
Community Care Eligibility API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
Today
Claims Attributes V1 API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Decision Reviews API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.42 % uptime
Today
Facilities API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
Today
Forms API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Loan Guaranty V1 (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.97 % uptime
Today
Veteran Confirmation API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Veteran Verification API (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Veterans Health API (FHIR) (Sandbox) Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
Today
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
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Maintenance
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had a partial outage.

No incidents or maintenance related to this downtime.

Scheduled Maintenance
Veterans Health API planned outage May 16, 10:00-16:00 EDT
Scheduled - A system dependency will undergo maintenance on Sunday, May 16, 2021 from 10:00am-4:00pm ET. This may affect the Veterans Health API in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs should remain in normal service.
Apr 30, 12:59 EDT
Past Incidents
May 16, 2021

No incidents reported today.

May 15, 2021

Unresolved incident: Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage.

May 14, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 13, 2021
Authentication issues in multiple Sandbox APIs
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 13, 15:14 EDT
Identified - An issue has been identified with an external system dependency, which is currently impacting all OAuth-based APIs. Users may experience degraded performance while attempting to use the affected APIs. This problem started at approximately 1:48 PM ET, and has been acknowledged. Lighthouse is monitoring the progress of this incident resolution and will post status updates as they become available.
May 13, 14:52 EDT
May 12, 2021
Benefits Claims and Veteran Verification APIs planned outage
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 12, 22:00 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 12, 21:01 EDT
Scheduled - A system dependency will undergo maintenance on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 from 9:00PM-10:00PM ET. This may affect the Benefits Claims and Veteran Verification APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs should remain in normal service.
May 10, 10:36 EDT
May 11, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 10, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 9, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 8, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 7, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 6, 2021
Upstream System Availability Impacting Claims APIs
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 6, 16:30 EDT
May 5, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 4, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 3, 2021

No incidents reported.

May 2, 2021
Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage (2/2)
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 2, 19:00 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 2, 15:00 EDT
Scheduled - A system dependency will undergo maintenance on Sunday, May 2, 2021 from 3:00pm-7:00pm ET. This may affect the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, and Benefits Claims APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs should remain in normal service.
Apr 30, 09:41 EDT
Appeals and Benefits Claims APIs planned outage (1/2)
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 2, 03:02 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 1, 21:00 EDT
Scheduled - A system dependency will undergo maintenance starting on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 9:00pm ET through Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 3:00am ET. This may affect the Appeals Status, Decision Reviews, and Benefits Claims APIs in the production environment. All other VA Lighthouse APIs should remain in normal service.
Apr 30, 09:39 EDT
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