About KeStatus
KeStatus is an independent, live record of whether websites and online services are working — the Kenyan ones people rely on every day, and the worldwide ones they also use. It is operated by Romrek Solutions, a small independent business in Kenya.
Why this exists
When iTax, M-PESA, SHA, eCitizen or Kenya Power stop working, the usual way to find out is to ask around: a group chat, a colleague, a social post that may be hours old. Every answer is somebody's impression, not a measurement. Meanwhile the service operators rarely publish anything at all.
KeStatus closes that gap with a plain public record: 96 services, each checked from our own servers on a fixed interval, with the result published whether it is convenient or not. Nobody has to take our word for it — the evidence (the HTTP response, the latency, the failure reason) is on every service page.
How a reading is made
- Every status is the result of a real HTTP request this service made. No vendor feeds, no press releases, no invented numbers.
- Where it matters, we assert content, not just a status code: a captive portal or a maintenance page that answers 200 is reported as down, not up.
- A single bad check is not an outage. Kenyan services need two consecutive failures before going red, and the remote ones need three, so one rate-limit blip cannot put a false alarm on the board.
- Probes come from our servers only. If a service refuses us — a bot wall, a failed certificate, a hostname that does not resolve — we say exactly that instead of guessing. Those services are not shown as down, because a refusal is not an outage.
- Community reports sit alongside the probe, never instead of it: people can see what a probe cannot (a sign-in loop, a code that never arrives, a payment failing at the last step), and both are shown with their evidence.
What this is not
- Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any service we monitor.
- Not a government or operator service, and not an official statement by anyone.
- Not a guarantee. A probe can be right from our network and wrong from yours. Status information is best-effort, as-is, and alerting is offered the same way — see the terms.
Who runs it
KeStatus is built and operated by Romrek Solutions in Kenya. The software is
proprietary — © 2026 Romrek Solutions, all rights reserved, governed by the laws of
Kenya. The first public release (commit eaaa773f) was published under the MIT
licence and stays under it; everything since is not.
Advertising and affiliate slots, where they appear, are labelled and never interfere with a reading. Nothing about them influences whether a service is reported as up or down.
Get in touch
Something wrong, something missing, or a service you want watched: write to [email protected], or read the blog for how the checking works. Want alerts instead? Get alerts.