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Downdetector

Downdetector is a crowd-sourced website that tracks user-submitted reports of outages and service disruptions across websites, apps, and online platforms.

Known aliases

  • downdetector.com

Current stories

productConfirmed2 publishers

Apple TV outlasts Apple's services outage under a 'scheduled maintenance' label

Apple TV was still down for some users after Apple restored the App Store, Music and Fitness+ from its September 30 outage, according to MacRumors. Apple's status page calls it scheduled maintenance. The entry gives no return time and does not say which screens still play it.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 13%
Operator
Operator 77%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence65
productOne report1 publisher

OpenAI and Anthropic publish eight and thirteen hours of downtime in the same 90 days

Both figures come from the providers' own status pages, and the sharper test is the afternoon of September 3, when OpenAI and Anthropic were degraded inside the same window, which is what a two-subscription fallback has to survive.

Reality

Evidence71
Adoption42
Hype gap−8
Incentives52
Confidence64
productOne report1 publisher

SpaceXAI apologizes to compute partners it declines to name after a Memphis outage

Grok went down for three and a half hours on Thursday and Claude's error window opened the same minute, but no vendor will say whether the two shared a building, which leaves customers explaining an outage they cannot trace.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption52
Hype gap+10
Incentives76
Confidence57
productOne report1 publisher

Outlook's Monday outage left one user unable to receive verification emails, others reporting varied issues

Microsoft traced the failure to recent changes it had made to the service and spent the day testing whether reverting them would help. For anyone mapping dependencies, it was a cheap rehearsal.

Publishers:cnet.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption40
Hype gap−15
Incentives70
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

A cached CDN response keeps your status page green after the origin dies

The author of an Indian outage tracker lists five ways the standard fetch-and-check-200 probe misleads, then rebuilds the verdict as four states with crowd reports weighted above the server check. The cold start on that crowd signal is the catch.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

Mastercard's Australian outage came from a scheduled update, which is the part worth auditing

A planned change declined cards nationwide for hours on a Saturday afternoon. The failure mode operators should be rehearsing is their own change window, not somebody else's attack.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption58
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence52