A blog about monitoring the 3rd party services businesses rely on https://isdown.app/ Monthly status report for cloud providers in March 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:11:18 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-march-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-march-2026 Monthly status report for AI systems in March 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:10:10 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-march-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-march-2026 IsDown detected 33 outages up to 2.3 hours before vendors acknowledged them in March 2026, plus 87 incidents vendors never reported. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:10:04 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/march-2026-isdown-users-saved-10-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection https://isdown.app/blog/march-2026-isdown-users-saved-10-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection Cut MTTR on vendor-caused incidents with two runbooks, proactive monitoring, and graceful degradation. A practical guide for DevOps teams and SREs. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:06:55 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-reduce-mttr-when-third-party-services-go-down https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-reduce-mttr-when-third-party-services-go-down AWS Health Dashboard lags 30-60 min during outages. Learn the monitoring stack SREs actually use to detect AWS issues before they hit customers. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:49:03 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-aws-status-don-t-wait-for-the-health-dashboard https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-aws-status-don-t-wait-for-the-health-dashboard IsDown widgets now support multi-language status messages. Customize operational, degraded, and outage text per language with automatic fallback. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:25:53 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/multi-language-status-page-widgets-customize-widget-messages-in-any-language https://isdown.app/blog/multi-language-status-page-widgets-customize-widget-messages-in-any-language Monthly status report for AI systems in February 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:01:01 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-february-2026 Monitor SendGrid status in real time to detect email delivery outages before they impact customers. Get instant alerts when SendGrid degrades or goes down. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:05:01 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/sendgrid-status-monitoring https://isdown.app/blog/sendgrid-status-monitoring YouTube went down on February 17, 2026, affecting homepage, sign-in, and TV apps worldwide. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:44:00 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/youtube-outage-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/youtube-outage-february-2026 AWS CloudFront DNS failures on Feb 10 cascaded to 20+ services. Full timeline, which services were hit, and what engineering teams can learn from it. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:15:18 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/aws-cloudfront-outage-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/aws-cloudfront-outage-february-2026 Monthly status report for cloud providers in January 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:28:27 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-january-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-january-2026 IsDown detected 34 outages up to 2.2 hours before vendors acknowledged them in January 2026, plus 101 incidents vendors never reported. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:26:29 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/january-2026-isdown-users-saved-9-2-hours-with-early-outage-detection https://isdown.app/blog/january-2026-isdown-users-saved-9-2-hours-with-early-outage-detection Monthly status report for AI systems in January 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:50:51 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-january-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-january-2026 A practical guide for school IT teams on communicating outages to teachers and staff, including channel selection, message templates, timing strategies, and when to stay quiet. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:36:04 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/communicating-outages-to-teachers-a-school-it-guide https://isdown.app/blog/communicating-outages-to-teachers-a-school-it-guide A practical guide comparing the true costs of building vs buying monitoring solutions, including hidden expenses, decision frameworks, and when each approach makes sense for IT teams. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:20:24 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/build-vs-buy-monitoring-the-real-cost-breakdown-for-it-teams https://isdown.app/blog/build-vs-buy-monitoring-the-real-cost-breakdown-for-it-teams We're excited to announce a new way to interact with IsDown: the MCP Server. Now you can query your monitoring data directly from AI assistants like Claude. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:14:43 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/introducing-isdown-mcp https://isdown.app/blog/introducing-isdown-mcp Monthly status report for LLM Providers in December 2025. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:45:14 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/llm-providers-status-report-december-2025 https://isdown.app/blog/llm-providers-status-report-december-2025 Monthly status report for cloud providers in December 2025. Official incidents and IsDown-detected issues for AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, and more. Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:31:47 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-december-2025 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-december-2025 Track GitHub outages before they kill your CI/CD. Compare official status pages, API monitoring, crowdsourced alerts, and automated GitHub outage tracker tools. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:02:06 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-and-history https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-and-history Track GitHub outages before they kill your CI/CD. Compare official status pages, API monitoring, crowdsourced alerts, and automated GitHub outage tracker tools. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:04:21 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-5-real-time-monitoring-methods https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-5-real-time-monitoring-methods Discover 7 reliable internet outage tracker tools to quickly determine if it's your connection or a widespread issue. From consumer to enterprise solutions. Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:03:56 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-internet-outages-7-reliable-tools-for-real-time-status https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-internet-outages-7-reliable-tools-for-real-time-status Scale your MSP NOC to monitor 50+ clients without hiring. Learn automation strategies, alert consolidation tactics, and client tiering frameworks. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:17:18 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/msp-noc-efficiency-monitor-50-clients-without-adding-staff https://isdown.app/blog/msp-noc-efficiency-monitor-50-clients-without-adding-staff Learn how MSPs can reduce support ticket volume by 30% using white-labeled status pages. Stop the ticket storm during outages with proactive client communication. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:15:15 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/reduce-msp-support-tickets-by-30-with-client-status-pages https://isdown.app/blog/reduce-msp-support-tickets-by-30-with-client-status-pages Learn how MSPs can track vendor SLA violations with automated logging. Get strategies for holding Microsoft, AWS, and Google accountable. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:13:14 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/vendor-sla-management-the-msp-s-data-driven-approach https://isdown.app/blog/vendor-sla-management-the-msp-s-data-driven-approach Calculate the true cost of downtime for MSPs. Get the formula to measure labor waste, client churn, and ROI of automated monitoring. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:10:43 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/cost-of-downtime-for-msps-calculate-your-hidden-losses https://isdown.app/blog/cost-of-downtime-for-msps-calculate-your-hidden-losses