Press kit & media resources

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StatusDetector is a universal status search engine that tracks the live health of 33+ consumer apps, AI services, payment networks, gaming platforms, and developer infrastructure — and decodes the cryptic error messages users see when something breaks.

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StatusDetector is a universal status search engine. It pulls live signals from 33+ official status APIs and continuously probes the services people actually use — apps, games, AI tools, payment processors, ISPs, cloud providers — and presents one honest answer to "is it down?" in seconds. The site also operates the Internet Graveyard (a curated archive of shut-down services with sourced epitaphs) and the Shutdown Radar (a live feed of ongoing outages and announced sunsets), making it useful both for end users troubleshooting in real time and for journalists tracking the lifecycle of internet services.

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StatusDetector is an independent universal status search engine launched to answer one question billions of times a day: "is it down for everyone, or just me?" It tracks 117 services across 11 categories — consumer apps, AI assistants, payment processors, gaming platforms, ISPs, cloud infrastructure, domain registrars, and global services from Asia, Europe, India, and Latin America. Live signals come from official status feeds (where services publish them) and continuous HTTP/SSL probes from our infrastructure (for everything else). On top of the live data the site offers 12 free tools — DNS lookup, error decoders, server checkers, AI output validators — and editorial surfaces no competitor maintains: the Internet Graveyard (30 retired services with researched epitaphs), the Shutdown Radar (real-time outages plus countdowns to announced sunsets), and Internet Pulse (an aggregate-health snapshot with cloud-provider drill-downs). Everything is free, requires no signup, and is published with permanent URLs so each outage and each retired service becomes a citable resource.

When a major service goes down

StatusDetector synthesises probe data, official status feeds, and user reports into a single confidence score per service. Every detected incident gets a permanent post-mortem URL within seconds, suitable for citation in real-time coverage.

When a service announces it is shutting down

The Internet Graveyard archives 30+ retired services with sourced epitaphs, timelines, API kill dates, and data-export windows. Useful for retrospectives on Vine, Google Reader, Stadia, Quibi, and others.

When a story is about internet health overall

Internet Pulse computes a real-time "% of tracked services operational" rollup with breakdowns by cloud provider (AWS vs Cloudflare vs Azure) and by category. The number is quotable as a single headline figure.

When a story is about regional services

19 international services tracked with first-party live feeds where available — including LINE, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Yandex, Mercado Libre, Flipkart, Paytm, and DAZN.