How we decide a service is really down
2026-10-13
The probe, the content check, the two-failure rule, and why a page that answers 200 can still be an outage.
The KeStatus blog
How the checking works, what the verdicts mean, and how a service gets added — written for people who want to know whether to trust a reading, not for search engines.
A probe and a thousand people: how the verdict is decided
2026-10-13
Why community reports travel alongside the probe reading rather than replacing it, and the exact rules used to combine them.
Ask for a service and we start watching it
2026-10-13
How a search like “is netflix down” becomes a monitored service, and the rules that stop junk entering the board.