EARTH · INTERNET OUTAGES

Where the internet
is down, right now

A live dot on every country showing a macroscopic connectivity drop right now, from IODA— the Georgia Tech Internet Intelligence Lab — which watches the whole internet through three independent lenses at once: BGP routing (is the network still reachable), active probing (are addresses answering), and a network telescope(passive liveness). It’s the live-health twin of the undersea cables: here are the cables, here is where the net just went dark.

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Outage Center — recent & ongoing, with likely cause

Where the IODA map above shows a live connectivity signal, this is the curated list of known outages and why they happened— the cause is Cloudflare’s assessment from publicly available information, not a certainty. Ongoing outages have no end time yet.

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◆ according to the Cloudflare Radar Outage Center · data under CC BY-NC 4.0· the cause is Cloudflare’s assessment from public information.

Reading the outage map

Each dot is a country IODA currently scores as having a connectivity drop. IODA’s raw score is unbounded and scales with how much of a country is affected, so we band it into three levels — our banding of IODA’s score, not IODA’s own label. A dot means a detected drop, not a proven total blackout.

MAJORA large drop

A big share of the country’s networks fell off at once — the signature of a national shutdown, a major cable break or a country-wide power failure.

SIGNIFICANTA partial drop

A clear, measurable dip — a region, a large network or a major provider losing reachability, short of the whole country going dark.

MINORA small drop

A smaller or localised disruption IODA still detected above the noise — worth a look, but not a sweeping outage.

Tap any dot for the detecting signal (BGP routing, active probing or the network telescope) and a link to IODA’s own dashboard for that country. New to this? The explainer unpacks how outages are detected:

Internet outages, power outages and the cables — three different questions

See it in context

About this data

The outage signal is IODA (Internet Outage Detection & Analysis), a public-interest project of the Georgia Tech Internet Intelligence Lab that fuses BGP routing, active probing and a network telescope into a near-real-time per-country outage score. We show it according to IODA and link every dot back to their own dashboard. A dot marks a detecteddrop in connectivity — it is not, on its own, proof of a total blackout, and the cause (a shutdown, a cable cut, a power failure, a storm) is not something the signal alone can tell you. A country IODA can’t place on the map is counted but never drawn as a guessed dot.