What is Chef current status?

Chef is currently operational. You can check Chef status and current incidents and outages on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the issues affecting customers.

Chef was not down today according to the official status page. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported. IsDown continuously monitors the Chef status page, looking for the latest outages and issues affecting customers. Check all recent outages in the section 'Latest Chef outages, issues and problems' at the top of the page.

How to monitor or check Chef status?

You can use IsDown service or go to Chef official status page. Some accounts also use Twitter to communicate the status.

How can I be notified when Chef is having issues or undergoing maintenance?

You can create an account in IsDown and monitor multiple services or subscribe for updates on the official status page. IsDown will send you a notification in real-time when Chef has issues. Chef official status page might also offer notification options such as email, SMS, or Slack.

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Current Chef status

Chef is working normally

Updated from Chef official status page a few minutes ago

Chef service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours

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Possible Incident

Confirmed Outage

This chart displays the number of user-reported issues 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. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe. Sign up for free to see more Chef status data.

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Recent Chef Outages and Downtime History

IsDown has tracked 56 incidents since started monitoring Chef status in August 2020. We collect data from 4522+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage.

Date	Incident	Duration
May 22, 2025 02:22 PM EDT	Major Issue with habitat builder database We have an isolated incident with our habitat database and we are investigating the issue. We wil...	about 9 hours
Mar 21, 2022 10:37 AM EDT	Minor Authentication broken for Supermarket We have identified that sign in for supermarket is not working. We are currently investigating th...	8 days
Jan 06, 2022 08:06 AM EST	Maintenance Hosted Chef Extended Maintenance We are seeing some issues with the upgraded DB performance after the upgrade today and working to...	3 months
Dec 22, 2021 08:41 AM EST	Minor Hosted Chef Increased error rate We are seeing increased Error rates in Hosted Chef , this seems to be because of an on going AWS ...	3 months
Aug 31, 2021 03:08 PM EDT	Minor Timeouts and failed requests for package distribution infrastructure We are experiencing network performance degradation due to a vendor.	7 months
Apr 21, 2021 01:59 PM EDT	Minor Increased Error rate 5xx on Hosted Chef (api.chef.io/manage.chef.io) We are facing increased 5xx Error rate on Hosted Chef. We have identified the problem and are wor...	11 months
Mar 11, 2021 01:12 AM EST	Minor Increased Error rate 5xx on Hosted Chef (api.chef.io) We are currently investigating increased error rate in Hosted Chef. We will keep you posted.	about 1 year
Jul 02, 2020 08:22 AM EDT	Minor Hosted Chef - Manage UI is not saving/loading attributes We are investigating an issue with Hosted Chef - Manage UI functionality. Please note this does...	over 1 year
Apr 16, 2020 07:06 PM EDT	Minor Elevated connection rate and 500's After upgrading PostgreSQL we are seeing database connections and CPU spikes. We're resizing the ...	almost 2 years
Feb 06, 2020 10:36 AM EST	Minor Increased supermarket errors We are investigating increased error rates and timeouts with supermarket.chef.io	about 2 years

Chef problems reported by users

omnitruck.chef.io 10 months ago

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

Chef status page - All services & components

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

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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"

Chef down for everyone or just me?

Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Find their support at their official website.
Find their support contact at their official status page.

How to check if Chef is down?

Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
Create an account in IsDown. Start monitoring Chef and get alerts in real-time when Chef has outages.

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.

Want to be informed about Chef status changes?

IsDown offers an easy way to monitor Chef with maximum flexibility

Major Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors Chef for major outages. A major outage is when Chef experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. When Chef marks an incident as a major outage, IsDown updates its internal status, the customer status page and dashboard. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Minor Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors Chef status page for minor outages. A minor outage 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. When a minor outage occurs, IsDown updates its internal status and shares that information on the customer status page. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Outage Details

IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Chef status page to provide the most accurate information. 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.

Maintenance Feed

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.

Component Filtering

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.

Early Outage Detection

Chef and other vendors don't always report outages on time. Our crowdsourced status platform helps you stay ahead of outages. Users report issues and outages, sharing details on what problems they are facing. We use that info to provide early signs of outages. This way, even without an official update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.