Data & Methodology
Where our outage signals come from
GlobalOutageMap combines independent signal layers, official provider signals, our own availability monitoring, curated newsroom coverage and community reports. The full provider directory contains hundreds of tracked services; this page summarises the categories we draw from.
| Category | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Major cloud providers | Verified provider signals | Explore |
| Global CDN & edge networks | Verified provider signals | Explore |
| Independent tech newsrooms | Curated newsroom coverage | Explore |
| Regional and language-specific media | Curated newsroom coverage | Explore |
| Community submissions | Reader-submitted reports | Explore |
Methodology in short
- Verified provider signals are the highest-trust layer, incidents acknowledged by the provider itself.
- GlobalOutageMap monitoring adds our own availability checks, which can surface a problem before it is officially confirmed.
- Community signals are structured one-tap experience reports on each provider page, no free text, no individual claims surfaced.
- Newsroom coverage is filtered for outage relevance and linked to the affected provider.
- Geographic precision, where the signal allows it, we place an incident on the affected region rather than corporate HQ.
Known limitations
- Smaller regional providers without a public acknowledgement channel are harder to track.
- Vendor channels sometimes lag the actual incident; community reports often surface earlier.
- News coverage is biased toward English-language publishers and major brands.
- Region-level precision requires the vendor to identify the affected region; otherwise we fall back to country.
How we read a signal
Every pin is an outage signal, not a guaranteed truth about your specific connection. Signals are reviewed and weighted by how well they are corroborated. For what each status means and what we never claim, see our methodology.