IsDown was founded in 2020 by Nuno Tomas.
The idea came from one night when Nuno was on-call and, at 4:00 AM, got a PagerDuty alert. After 30 minutes of debugging to figure out why one of the databases was down, he realized the problem wasn’t with the database but with the provider. They had posted an outage on their status page, but we weren’t subscribed to it.
After that incident, Nuno realized how hard it was to keep track of all the status pages and outages from the providers. There had to be a better way to do it. We were relying on dozens of providers, each with its own status page and format, making it impossible to gather all outages in one place.
That’s why he decided to create IsDown, a status page aggregator that helps companies have a single source of truth for the status of all their services.
Our goal is to make it simple for teams to monitor their dependencies and quickly identify the root cause of any issues. We’re now monitoring over 3,250 status pages and counting. We’ve also been adding ways to detect issues before providers even release an outage update on their status pages.
We also believe that we should not be another tool that teams have to take a look when there's an issue. That's why we've been adding more and more integrations with other tools, to help teams aggregate all the information in one place.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at: support@isdown.app