How it works

Every company has a status page. The internet as a whole does not. This page asks two questions, every five minutes, and turns them into one answer anyone can read.

Is it up?

We read the public status pages of the services a large part of the web runs on: Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Akamai, and the big tools and apps on top of them. One of the backbone services in a major outage, or three services down at once, and the answer is No.

Is it safe?

Security incidents are written by hand from official sources: the project's own advisory first, then security agencies, then the press. A critical flaw that attackers already use, or that touches everyone, turns the answer orange. An incident stops counting 14 days after its fix is out, or after 45 quiet days.

The answer

Yes: everything we watch is up and no serious security incident is open.
Mostly: the internet is up, but there are flaws to patch.
Kind of: a backbone service is partly down, or several big services are struggling.
No: a backbone service is in a major outage, or three services are down at once.

Sources

Each incident links to where it comes from. The fresh flaws come straight from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue and GitHub's reviewed advisories. Nothing is shown without a source. A press article alone is never enough: the project, the vendor or a security agency must confirm it, and the same flaw is never counted twice.

Use it

The whole status is open: a JSON API at /status.json, an RSS feed at /feed.xml and a badge for your own site at /badge.svg.

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Report something

Seen an incident we missed, or a mistake? Write to hello@istheinternetok.com, with an official source if you have one.

What it is not

Not a scanner and not an alert service for your own servers: a calm summary of what is going on, for everyone.