Rakuten status
Rakuten uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · since Aug 5, 2026
- 100%
- Response time
- 49 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Rakuten down everywhere, or just for you?
Our probes reached Rakuten successfully from every monitoring region in the last check round.
| Monitoring region | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Reachable | 100% | 533 ms |
| Europe | Reachable | 100% | 458 ms |
| North America (East) | Reachable | 100% | 300 ms |
| North America (West) | Reachable | 100% | 348 ms |
Based on 212 automated checks in the last 24 hours. A region only appears here once we have real measurements from it.
What to check when Rakuten misbehaves
Rakuten is an online store in our e-commerce catalog. Services like this rarely fail as one block — these pieces can break on their own, so identifying which one is affected usually explains what you are seeing.
- StorefrontBrowsing and product pages
- SearchFinding products
- Cart & checkoutCompleting an order
- PaymentsCard and wallet authorisation
- Account & ordersOrder history and tracking
Our automated checks measure reachability and response time of Rakuten's public endpoint. Component level detail above reflects what users of this kind of service typically report, not a vendor status feed.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Rakuten appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Rakuten
Rakuten is an e-commerce and affiliate marketing platform where shoppers earn cashback on purchases made through a directory of partner retailers. Users log in to track their shopping trips, check their Big Fat Check balance, and activate browser extensions for automatic discounts. Service failures often prevent the activation of cashback sessions or lead to errors when browsing the marketplace. The platform may also fail to record transactions, resulting in missing credits for users. Rimetry oversees this shopping service by consistently probing its domain for connectivity and performance metrics from multiple global locations.
Rakuten (rakuten.com) is a e-commerce service monitored continuously by rimetry from multiple global regions. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds to detect outages, latency spikes, and regional degradations the moment they happen.
Right now Rakuten is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 49 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to rakuten.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Rakuten include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Rakuten?
Global marketplace and cashback shopping platform.
Rakuten is part of our E-commerce category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Checkout errors or payment declines
- · Cart emptying unexpectedly
- · Product pages or search failing to load
- · Order tracking not updating
Similar patterns often surface across other e-commerce providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Don't retry checkout repeatedly — check your order history first to avoid duplicates
- · Clear the cart cookie if the basket looks wrong
- · Try a different payment method; declines often come from the bank, not the shop
- · Test as a guest to rule out an account-specific problem
- · Disable extensions that rewrite checkout pages
- · Check Rakuten's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to e-commerce.
FAQ
- Is Rakuten down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Where can I see past Rakuten incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to e-commerce.