October 2025 Azure outage: How StatusGator detected it first
When Azure Front Door began to fail on October 29, 2025, hundreds of downstream services, including Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Azure SQL, went dark. While Microsoft didn’t publicly acknowledge the issue until 12:35 PM ET, StatusGator dashboards were already lighting up nearly 50 minutes earlier. StatusGator notified its subscribers of an Azure outage 42 minutes prior to the official status page at 11:53 AM ET.