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Checkr Outage History

Every past Checkr outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 208 Checkr outages since February 2022. The 43 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major April 22, 2026

April 2026: Intermittent dashboard login and access issues

Detected Apr 22, 2026 2:50 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 22, 2026 5:18 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Checkr experienced intermittent login and access issues with their Client Dashboard for 2.5 hours. Users were unable to reliably access the dashboard during this period. The issue was addressed and resolved after monitoring confirmed the fix was successful.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Federal Criminal Searches experiencing delays

Detected Apr 7, 2026 9:49 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 11:45 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Checkr's Federal Criminal Searches experienced delays for 1.9 hours due to an issue with their data source component. The company implemented a fix and monitored the results before fully resolving the incident.

Minor March 29, 2026

March 2026: Federal Searches experiencing delays

Detected Mar 29, 2026 11:27 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 29, 2026 11:39 AM EDT · Duration 12 minutes

Checkr experienced delays in Federal Searches affecting their Data Source component for 12 minutes. The service disruption was investigated and resolved without further details provided about the root cause.

Minor March 28, 2026

March 2026: Federal Searches experiencing delays

Detected Mar 28, 2026 1:29 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 28, 2026 8:37 PM EDT · Duration about 7 hours

Checkr's Federal Searches experienced delays for 7.1 hours due to an issue with their Data Source component. The service implemented a fix and monitored the results before fully resolving the incident.

Minor March 16, 2026

March 2026: Delayed completion of PACER searches for criminal searches

Detected Mar 16, 2026 12:53 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 16, 2026 1:45 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Checkr experienced delayed completion of PACER searches for criminal background checks, affecting their API service. The issue was identified and resolved with a fix implementation after 52 minutes of service disruption.

Minor March 15, 2026

March 2026: Delayed completion of PACER searches for criminal searches

Detected Mar 15, 2026 11:42 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 16, 2026 12:45 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Checkr experienced delays in completing PACER searches for criminal background checks, affecting their API functionality. The issue impacted the processing time of criminal search requests that rely on PACER court records. The incident was resolved after 1.1 hours of investigation and remediation.

Major March 8, 2026

March 2026: Increased turnaround time for Criminal Searches

Detected Mar 8, 2026 1:34 AM EST · Resolved Mar 8, 2026 11:40 PM EDT · Duration about 21 hours

Checkr experienced a major incident where criminal background check reports took significantly longer than expected to process, affecting their data source systems for 21.1 hours. The issue impacted Federal District, State, County Civil and Municipal searches, causing delays in report delivery. The incident was resolved after engineers identified the root cause and implemented a fix, followed by monitoring to ensure stability.

Minor March 1, 2026

March 2026: We are currently experiencing longer than expected turnaround times for reports with Criminal Searches

Detected Mar 1, 2026 11:49 AM EST · Resolved Mar 1, 2026 4:36 PM EST · Duration about 5 hours

Checkr experienced longer than expected turnaround times for reports containing criminal searches, affecting their API functionality. The service disruption lasted approximately 4.8 hours before being fully resolved. The incident was classified as minor and has since been restored to normal operations.