Biggest outages by year
The outages that drew the most problem reports on Down.Now, one page per year since 2016. Every link lands on the incident's permanent record.
Biggest outages of 2026 so far →
27 majors · 19 services
Discord Aug 7 · peak 496/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 99/min around 22:20 UTC; 1,234 reports over 20m. Reports from the United States, Brazil, France and 7 more countries. 
Biggest outages of 2025 →
33 majors · 19 services
Google Sep 4 Major outage — problem reports stayed above normal; 12,389 reports over 7h 48m. Reports from Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece and 63 more countries. 
Biggest outages of 2024 →
26 majors · 18 services
Verizon Sep 30 Major outage — problem reports stayed above normal; 10,453 reports over 9h 43m. Most reports from the United States. 
Biggest outages of 2023 →
96 majors · 18 services
Dota 2 Mar 10 · peak 501/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 100/min around 14:10 UTC; 2,459 reports over 47m. Most reports from Russia. 
Biggest outages of 2022 →
125 majors · 43 services
Spotify Mar 8 · peak 569/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 114/min around 18:20 UTC; 3,665 reports over 1h 6m. Reports from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and 73 more countries. 
Biggest outages of 2021 →
148 majors · 50 services Discord Nov 28 · peak 965/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 193/min around 01:35 UTC; 6,755 reports over 1h 29m. Reports from Germany, Russia, the United States and 57 more countries. 
Biggest outages of 2020 →
343 majors · 77 services
Fortnite Dec 12 · peak 31,744/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 6349/min around 17:15 UTC; 75,831 reports over 23m. Most reports from Amsterdam. 
Biggest outages of 2019 →
423 majors · 107 services
Instagram Jan 29 · peak 1,861/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 372/min around 00:35 UTC; 7,368 reports over 41m. Most reports from the United States. 
Biggest outages of 2018 →
582 majors · 119 services
YouTube Nov 18 · peak 1,929/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 386/min around 23:15 UTC; 4,456 reports over 17m. Most reports from the United States. 
Biggest outages of 2017 →
281 majors · 49 services
Snapchat Nov 6 · peak 5,923/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 1185/min around 23:00 UTC; 5,925 reports over 6m. Reports from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and 83 more countries. 
Biggest outages of 2016 →
15 majors · 7 services
Steam Dec 23 · peak 240/5m Major outage — problem reports peaked at 48/min around 16:15 UTC; 6,917 reports over 3h 36m. Reports from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and 103 more countries. 
