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Verizon outage - January 14

Jan 16, 2026 By Andy Libby In StatusGator
When a major carrier like Verizon goes down, the impact is immediate and widespread. On January 14, 2026, thousands of users across the United States found themselves without cellular service, unable to make calls, send texts, or access data. While social media erupted with reports of “SOS mode” on iPhones, official acknowledgment from the provider lagged behind for hours.
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Intercom outage - January 9th, 2026

Jan 10, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
Ever had that sinking feeling when your help desk just stops responding, but the official status page says everything is “up and running”? That’s exactly what happened on January 9, 2026, when Intercom – one of the world’s most popular support tools – hit a major snag. While hundreds of companies were left staring at loading circles, StatusGator was already on the case.
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RapidSpike Status Pages: Clearer, Smarter, More Transparent

Jan 9, 2026 By Georgina Grant-Muller In RapidSpike
Clear communication is everything when it comes to service availability. Whether you’re managing a critical website, a SaaS platform, or customer-facing infrastructure, your users expect clarity, honesty, and real-time insight when things don’t go to plan. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the newly refreshed RapidSpike Status Pages, redesigned to look better, work smarter, and provide deeper, more meaningful insight at a glance.
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Best Downdetector Alternatives for Outage Monitoring in 2026

Best Downdetector Alternatives for Outage Monitoring in 2026

Jan 6, 2026 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
To keep operations running, businesses and individuals increasingly rely on online services. When outages occur, having the right tools to detect and respond quickly is essential. Outage monitoring platforms provide real-time insights into service disruptions, helping minimize downtime and maintain productivity. While Downdetector is a widely recognized platform, its focus on consumer-level features may not fully meet business needs. Organizations relying on multiple third-party services require tools with advanced capabilities like deeper insights, customizable notifications, and seamless integrations.
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GitHub Outage Tracker: 5 Real-Time Monitoring Methods

Dec 29, 2025 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
When GitHub goes down, everything stops. Your developers can't push code. CI/CD pipelines hang indefinitely. Pull requests pile up. Deployments freeze. And if you're like most engineering teams, you find out about it when your Slack channel explodes with "Is GitHub down for everyone?" The average GitHub outage could cost teams 2-4 hours of developer productivity. For a 50-person engineering org, that's 100-200 hours of lost work — assuming you catch the outage immediately. Most teams don't.
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2025: The year of the global cloud outage

Dec 23, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
StatusGator has been monitoring the world’s cloud services for more than 10 years now. We’ve seen outages, big and small, affect companies of all sizes for more than a decade. Yet as we close out 2025, it feels like the last 12 months brought us some of the biggest outages in the history of the internet. In fact, by our data, this is true! Never before in history have so many huge outages taken down so much of the internet, in such a short time.
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Component statuses: Now in the API

Dec 23, 2025 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
The StatusGator API continues to expand with new end points to help support the wide variety of use cases our customers have. We just released two new APIs: In case you missed, it component filtering is one of StatusGator’s most important features, allowing you to filter your service monitor to just the specific products, regions, or features you use. It’s an essential setup step that helps minimize noise.
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Blameless Postmortem: Foundation of Site Reliability

Dec 23, 2025 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
When systems fail, the instinct to find someone to blame runs deep. But what if assigning fault actually makes your systems less reliable? A blameless postmortem culture transforms how teams learn from incidents, creating stronger systems and more effective incident response processes.
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Is Northern Virginia Still the Least Reliable AWS Region in 2025? We Analyzed the Data

Dec 23, 2025 By Andy Libby In StatusGator
This updated analysis is based on StatusGator outage data collected from January 1 to December 9, 2025. We decided to review our AWS analysis of outages in 2022 due to several new AWS incidents, especially another widely discussed AWS outage in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) that occurred on October 20, 2025. We’ve expanded the report with fresh 2025 regional data as well as a new breakdown of affected AWS services.
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