Newsroom
Independent analysis of internet outages plus evergreen explainers on how DNS, BGP, CDN, and cloud regions actually work.
- Explainer
What Is DNS, and Why Does a Single DNS Outage Take Down Half the Internet?
DNS is the phone book of the internet, and when a major resolver hiccups, services from gaming to banking go dark at the same time. Here is why.
- Explainer
How Downrightnow Detects Outages Before Status Pages Update
A look inside the multi-signal detection pipeline that catches outages within minutes, often before the vendor's own status page admits anything is wrong.
- Outage
Sentry Outage Disrupts Error Tracking and Access in the DE Region
A major outage impacted Sentry services in the DE region, causing HTTP 500 errors and blocking access to organizations for nearly three hours.