VIES status: France
Here is what we are seeing right now from the France VAT number validation service behind VIES (country code FR), checked every 5 minutes.
| Current status | Operational |
|---|---|
| Last measured latency | 822 ms |
| Average latency (24h) | 2.1 s |
| Availability (24h) | 100% 57 checks |
| Availability (7d) | 100% 57 checks |
| Signal source | check-status |
Errors seen in the last 7 days
| Error | Occurrences |
|---|---|
SLOW | 1 |
Recent state changes for France
- FR Degraded → Operational
- FR Operational → Degraded SLOW
Status badge for France
<img src="https://vies.attestwire.com/badge/fr.svg" alt="VIES France status">How we know: our liveness probe for France is a real check-vat-number call against a publicly registered VAT number.
Get an alert when France's VIES endpoint goes down
We store your address, the country code and a timestamp — nothing else. To be straight with you: Alerts start shortly, but they are not sending yet. When they do, we will only email you about VIES availability. No newsletter, ever.
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