Newsela Outage History

Every past Newsela outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 3 Newsela outages since July 2024. The 2 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major April 14, 2026

April 2026: Newsela Homepage Disruption

Detected Apr 14, 2026 12:59 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 14, 2026 1:56 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Newsela experienced a major service disruption affecting their pre-authentication homepage and login functionality for 56 minutes on April 14, 2026. Users encountered intermittent issues accessing newsela.com, while the main application at app.newsela.com continued to work normally. The service was restored after the disruption period ended.

Minor March 2, 2026

March 2026: Degraded Site Performance

Detected Mar 2, 2026 2:25 PM EST · Resolved Mar 2, 2026 2:45 PM EST · Duration 20 minutes

Newsela experienced degraded site performance for 20 minutes, causing slow page loads, errors, and difficulty accessing features. The incident affected core components including Log In, Assignments, Grading and Insights, and Search functionality. The engineering team identified the affected systems and actively worked on resolving the performance issues.