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PBS is having a minor outage
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for PBS service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.
See where users report PBS is down. The map shows recent PBS outages from around the world.
Top locations, last 24h:
See what users report when PBS is down and how PBS outages affect them.
Mary - We tried to watch a show on PBS PASSPORT and couldn't get on. Tried several times with no success. Help?.
Paul - Passport is not loading correctly, no access to stream shows. PBS app is taking extremely long time to load and when it does it does not work correctly..
App will not load shows. Keeps saying unexpected error. Lost all my saved shows. Have reinstalled, cleared cache, nothing is helping. When I look up shows I get half a page! Nothing that allows me to play the show.
Passport will not load on any of my devices: computer, phone or TV..
Not connecting to server, not loading on Roku. When it does, won't continue to shows..
Mile - PBS passport wonβt load. I just get a blue screen. No sound.
Marion - The streaming app will not load.
Beth - Just get a blue screen - cannot access station on TV.
Andrea - Shows wonβt load. Just a spinning wheel.
PBS app not working on roku. Has been down for hours..
Greg - app just blue screens and retry option, spinning circles. No Endeavor tonight!:(.
App is down on TV and phone.
Can't access via Roku or on my laptop.
Mark - Can't access the login page via chrome. Roku is logged in but content won't load..
They have just will not load on my Roku. Blue screen..
In the last 90 days, PBS had 4 incidents (2 major outages and 2 minor incidents) with a median duration of 89 hours 27 minutes.
Incidents
Major Outages
Minor Incidents
Median Resolution
Full incident reports for recent PBS outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.
| Title | IsDown detected At | Duration |
|---|---|---|
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We are currently investigating some lagging and time-outs in the MVault console.
Some other pl...
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Jul 31, 2026 at 03:53 PM UTC
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Ongoing |
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We're currently investigating an issue which is preventing users on some Samsung TV models from o...
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Jun 22, 2026 at 02:22 PM UTC
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7 days |
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We're investigating an issue where the livestream player is experiencing intermittent playback is...
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Jun 16, 2026 at 03:26 PM UTC
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1 day |
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Users nationwide may be prevented from opening and using the PBS app on Amazon Fire Tablet device...
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Jun 04, 2026 at 10:09 PM UTC
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4 days |
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We've identified an issue preventing the PBS KIDS app from loading on select platforms, with Roku...
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Apr 27, 2026 at 03:05 PM UTC
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about 3 hours |
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We are currently investigating an issue preventing users from pasting content within the Bento co...
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Mar 09, 2026 at 05:16 PM UTC
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3 days |
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We're currently investigating an issue where attempting to Save changes in the Bento console is r...
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Feb 11, 2026 at 03:18 PM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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PBS services are currently affected intermittently by an ongoing AWS issue. Viewers may report is...
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Feb 10, 2026 at 09:29 PM UTC
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about 16 hours |
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We've identified an issue with video playback on the PBS app for Samsung TV, VIZIO SmartCast TV, ...
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Jan 30, 2026 at 01:53 PM UTC
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11 days |
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This morning and early afternoon, our teams have been making some infrastructure updates to the K...
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Jan 21, 2026 at 06:17 PM UTC
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about 22 hours |
Check if any PBS component is down. View the current status of 58 services and regions.
| Component | Status |
|---|---|
| AIM | OK |
| APIs | OK |
| AWS apigateway-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS autoscaling-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS cloudformation-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS cloudtrail-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS cloudwatch-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS codedeploy-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS config-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS directconnect-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS dynamodb-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS ec2-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS ecr-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS ecs-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS elasticache-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS elasticsearch-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS elb-us-east-1 | OK |
| AWS elemental-us-east-1 | OK |
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PBS isn't down. You can check PBS status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors PBS official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 1 outages reported.
PBS is currently operational. You can check PBS status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
Yes, there is an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.
Yes, PBS might be slow as there's an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.
IsDown monitors the PBS official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
PBS last outage was on July 31, 2026 with the title "Lagging and Time-outs in MVault"
IsDown has tracked 121 PBS incidents since February 2022.
Check the PBS status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether PBS is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.
IsDown monitors 75 PBS components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.
Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor PBS and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.
IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if PBS is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about PBS's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.