Chef status. Is Chef down right now?
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What is Chef status right now?
Chef is working normally
IsDown last checked Chef status on at . We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.
Monitoring since Aug 2020
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56 incidents caught
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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
See where users report Chef is down. The map shows recent Chef outages from around the world.
Chef Outage Map
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Latest Chef outages detected by IsDown
Check Chef status history below. IsDown detects when Chef is down, tracking both official outages and user-reported issues.
7 months
Aug 31, 2021 at 07:08 PM
11 months
Apr 21, 2021 at 05:59 PM
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We have an isolated incident with our habitat database and we are investigating the issue. We wil...
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May 22, 2025 at 06:22 PM UTC
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about 9 hours |
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We have identified that sign in for supermarket is not working. We are currently investigating th...
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Mar 21, 2022 at 02:37 PM UTC
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8 days |
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We are seeing some issues with the upgraded DB performance after the upgrade today and working to...
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Jan 06, 2022 at 01:06 PM UTC
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3 months |
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We are seeing increased Error rates in Hosted Chef , this seems to be because of an on going AWS ...
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Dec 22, 2021 at 01:41 PM UTC
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3 months |
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We are experiencing network performance degradation due to a vendor.
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Aug 31, 2021 at 07:08 PM UTC
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7 months |
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We are facing increased 5xx Error rate on Hosted Chef.
We have identified the problem and are wor...
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Apr 21, 2021 at 05:59 PM UTC
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11 months |
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We are currently investigating increased error rate in Hosted Chef.
We will keep you posted.
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Mar 11, 2021 at 06:12 AM UTC
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about 1 year |
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We are investigating an issue with Hosted Chef - Manage UI functionality.
Please note this does...
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Jul 02, 2020 at 12:22 PM UTC
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over 1 year |
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After upgrading PostgreSQL we are seeing database connections and CPU spikes. We're resizing the ...
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Apr 16, 2020 at 11:06 PM UTC
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almost 2 years |
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We are investigating increased error rates and timeouts with supermarket.chef.io
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Feb 06, 2020 at 03:36 PM UTC
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about 2 years |
Get alerts when Chef is down
- Monitor all your external dependencies in one place
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- Be the first to know if service is down
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Chef Components Status
Check if any Chef component is down. View the current status of 7 services and regions.
About Chef Status and Outage Monitoring
IsDown has monitored Chef continuously since August 2020, tracking this CI/CD & Deployment for 6 years. Over that time, we've documented 56 outages and incidents, averaging 0.8 per month.
We monitor Chef's official status page across 20 components organized into 7 groups. IsDown interprets Chef statuses (operational, degraded performance, partial outage, and major outage) to deliver precise health metrics and filter alerts by the components you actually use.
To check if Chef is down, IsDown combines official status data with user reports for early detection. Vendors often delay acknowledging problems, so user reports help us alert you before the official announcement.
Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to track Chef status and receive verified outage alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.
How IsDown Monitors Chef
IsDown checks Chef's status page every few minutes, across all 20 components. We combine official status data with user reports to detect when Chef is down, often before the vendor announces it.
When Chef status changes, IsDown sends alerts to your preferred channels. Filter by severity to skip noise and focus on outages that affect your business.
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.
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How IsDown Works
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Step 01
We monitor official status pages
IsDown checks the status of over 5,850+ services every few minutes. We aggregate official status information and normalize it, plus collect crowdsourced reports for early outage detection.
Step 02
You get notified instantly
When we detect an incident or status change, you receive an alert immediately. Customize notifications by service, component, or severity to avoid alert fatigue.
Step 03
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View all your services in a unified dashboard or public or private status page. Send alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Datadog, and 20+ other tools your team already uses.
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Chef Downdetector vs IsDown
Looking for Chef outage alerts like Downdetector? IsDown monitors Chef's official status page for verified incident data, not just user reports. Know exactly when Chef is down, which components are affected, and when service health is restored. Here's why official Chef status monitoring beats crowdsourced detection:
| Features | IsDown | Downdetector |
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| Official Chef status page monitoring. Know when Chef is down with real time incident details. | ||
| Monitor 5,850+ services including Chef in a single dashboard. | ||
| Instant Chef outage alerts sent to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more. | ||
| Combined monitoring: Chef official status plus user reports for early outage detection. | ||
| 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?
- 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.
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