Is VIES Down? › Greece
VIES status: Greece
Here is what we are seeing right now from the Greece VAT number validation service behind VIES (country code EL), checked every 5 minutes.
| Current status | Operational |
|---|---|
| Last measured latency | 231 ms |
| Average latency (24h) | 731 ms |
| Availability (24h) | 100% 287 checks |
| Availability (7d) | 100% 1973 checks |
| Signal source | check-status |
Errors seen in the last 7 days
| Error | Occurrences |
|---|---|
SLOW | 4 |
VIES_UNREACHABLE | 3 |
GLOBAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_REQ | 2 |
Greece uses EL, not GR
If your Greek lookups are failing, this is almost certainly why. VIES identifies Greece by the code EL, not the ISO 3166 code GR. Greek VAT numbers get printed both ways out in the wild, and sending GR to the VIES API returns INVALID_INPUT rather than a validation result. Normalise GR to EL before you call and the problem disappears.
Recent state changes for Greece
Nothing to report yet — no state changes recorded. Every time a member state moves between operational, degraded and down, it will show up here.
Status badge for Greece
<img src="https://vies.attestwire.com/badge/el.svg" alt="VIES Greece status">How we know: our liveness probe for Greece is a real check-vat-number call against a publicly registered VAT number.
Get an alert when Greece's VIES endpoint goes down
One email when Greece's endpoint stops answering, one when it recovers, and at most one alert per member state every 6 hours — VIES flaps, and we would rather be useful than constant. You will get a confirmation mail immediately, and every message has a one-click unsubscribe.
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