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Chef status. Is Chef down right now?

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Is Chef down?

Chef is working normally

IsDown last checked Chef status on at . We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.

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Monitoring since Aug 2020 · 56 incidents caught · 20 components tracked in real-time

Chef service health over the last 24 hours

This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Chef 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.

Chef Outage Map

Chef Outage Map

See where Chef users are reporting performance issues or downtime. The map shows recent outages from around the world.

Chef Outage Map

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Recent Chef outage reports

See what users are saying about Chef issues that impacted them and how they are affected by the outage.

  • The app will not move to the next page after confirming to use the service..

  • Silvia - https://omnitruck.chef.io/ replies with: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable .

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Latest Chef outages detected by IsDown

Check out the latest outages detected by IsDown for Chef. It will show official outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.

about 9 hours
Issue with habitat builder database
May 22, 2025 at 06:22 PM
8 days
Authentication broken for Supermarket
Mar 21, 2022 at 02:37 PM
3 months
Hosted Chef Extended Maintenance
Jan 06, 2022 at 01:06 PM
3 months
Hosted Chef Increased error rate
Dec 22, 2021 at 01:41 PM
7 months
Timeouts and failed requests for package distribution infrastructure
Aug 31, 2021 at 07:08 PM
11 months
Increased Error rate 5xx on Hosted Chef (api.chef.io/manage.chef.io)
Apr 21, 2021 at 05:59 PM
about 1 year
Increased Error rate 5xx on Hosted Chef (api.chef.io)
Mar 11, 2021 at 06:12 AM
over 1 year
Hosted Chef - Manage UI is not saving/loading attributes
Jul 02, 2020 at 12:22 PM
almost 2 years
Elevated connection rate and 500's
Apr 16, 2020 at 11:06 PM
about 2 years
Increased supermarket errors
Feb 06, 2020 at 03:36 PM
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Components / Services / Regions current status

Check the current status of the 7 components, services, or regions being monitored for Chef.

Component Status Details
Content Delivery Network status OK View details
Fastly Fastly Status Page status OK View details
Hosted Chef status OK View details
Infrastructure Provider status OK View details
Package Distribution Infrastructure status OK View details
Supermarket status OK View details
Web Infrastructure status OK View details

About Chef Status Monitoring

IsDown has maintained continuous monitoring of Chef, a CI/CD & Deployment solution, since August 2020. Our database contains 56 documented incidents from the past 5 years, giving us deep insight into Chef's reliability patterns and typical resolution times. We parse Chef's official status page across all 20 components and 7 groups, interpreting statuses like operational, degraded performance, partial outage, and major outage to deliver precise uptime metrics and targeted notifications.

When Chef experiences issues, you need accurate information fast. IsDown combines official status page data with user-reported issues, giving you early detection when vendors are slow to acknowledge problems, plus verified incident details once they do. You get affected components, severity levels, and real-time resolution updates from both sources.

Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to monitor Chef and receive verified outage alerts. Get instant notifications through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.

How IsDown monitors Chef?

IsDown monitors Chef health in almost real-time

Every few minutes we check the status page of Chef (and 5,420+ other services) for issues. We collect the status and outage information across all 20 Chef components. We also monitor user reports alongside official sources. Since vendors often take time to report incidents, monitoring user reports helps us alert you early.

The moment an issue is detected in Chef, IsDown sends an alert and updates your status page

Not only will you get notified, but IsDown offers notification filters so you can choose which issues you want to be alerted about. This way you avoid getting all incidents from Chef and other services, focusing only on those affecting your business.

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What you get when monitoring Chef with IsDown

Track Chef incidents and downtimes by severity

IsDown checks Chef official status page for major/minor outages or downtimes. A major outage is when Chef experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. A minor incident is when Chef experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. The moment we detect a Chef outage, we send you an alert and update your dashboard and status page.

Get alerted as soon as users report problems with Chef

Chef and other vendors don't always report outages on time. IsDown collects user reports to provide early detection of outages. This way, even without an official status update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.

All the details of Chef outages and downtimes

IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Chef status page to provide the context of the outage. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.

Prepare for upcoming Chef maintenance events

Chef publishes scheduled maintenance events on their status page. IsDown collects all the information for each event and creates a feed that people can follow to ensure they are not surprised by unexpected downtime or problems. We also send the feed in our weekly report, alerting the next maintenances that will take place.

Only get alerted on the Chef outages that impact your business

IsDown monitors Chef and all their 20 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.

One platform to monitor all your external dependencies

Our tool was built to be the best way to monitor all your external dependencies in one place. IsDown not only will help you monitor Chef but also 5,421 other services. Your team and customers will have a clear view of all your dependencies and their status, making it easier to identify and resolve issues.

Monitor Chef and all your external dependencies in real-time

Add all your dependencies to your dashboard. IsDown will monitor them in real-time and send you alerts when there is an issue. You can also create a status page for a bird's-eye view and share it with your team.

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Get notified immediately when there's an issue with Chef or other services

Not only will you get notified, but IsDown offers notification filters so you can choose which issues you want to be notified about. This way you avoid getting all incidents from Chef and other services.

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Get notified immediately when there's an issue with Chef or other services

Send outage information from Chef and other services to your tools

IsDown integrates with 20+ tools. Connect the status of Chef and 5,420 other vendors to your tools to receive vendor outage alerts exactly where your team needs them.

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Share Chef status in your status page

Create a status page that can easily be accessed by your team and customers. You can make it public or private, and customize it to your needs. This will be your first line of communication when there's the question 'Is Chef down?'

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Chef Downdetector vs IsDown

Need similar to Downdetector Chef alerts? IsDown might be the solution for you. While Downdetector relies on user-submitted reports to detect Chef outages, IsDown monitors Chef's status page for verified, detailed incident information. Here's why official monitoring provides better reliability for your business:

Features
Downdetector
Official Chef status page monitoring with real-time incident details.
Monitor 5,420+ services including Chef in a single dashboard.
Instant Chef outage alerts sent to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more.
Combined monitoring of Chef official status and user-reported issues.
Maintenance feed for Chef
Granular alerts filtering by Chef components and regions.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Chef down today?

Chef isn't down. You can check Chef status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Chef official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current Chef status?

Chef is currently operational. You can check Chef 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.

Is there a Chef outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Chef down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Chef being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Chef outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Chef 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.

Is Chef having an outage right now?

Chef last outage was on May 22, 2025 with the title "Issue with habitat builder database"

How to check if Chef is down?

Why use IsDown to monitor Chef instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Chef 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.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Chef?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Chef 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 Chef'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.

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