Downhound

Downhound provides outage information for over 14,000 websites, apps, games & internet providers.

Downhound provides one of the most complete lists of outages worldwide, pulling from hundreds more sources than traditional sites like DownDetector, such as RSS feeds and Twitter status accounts. For instance, DownDetector ignores outages from nearly all Internet providers; Downhound covers outages from thousands of network providers and mobile carriers.

This matters because when a network provider goes down, it's often localized to a region but also very severe. If a game or social network goes down, it's a bummer, but you can do something else. If you can't reach the Internet at all, your entire online life comes to a halt. DownDetector rarely covers this situation... in part, because it's hard for users to report downtime on the DownDetector website if people can't connect in the first place.

For business, Downhound solves the problem of cloud stack reliability: the fact that most modern businesses rely on dozens of cloud providers to deliver their services. These can include major infrastructure providers like AWS, to point narrow (but still important) services like Calendly. If any of those vendors go down, a business might not be able to serve its customers -- and DownDetector covers very few of them.

Given that Downhound typically sees about 80 outages a day, or once every 18 minutes, a modern business can face challenges to its online operations multiple times a day. By providing availability information of hundreds of cloud vendors in a no-nonsense UI that simply lists outages -- rather than driving page views and advertising revenue --Downhound can be a useful first stop for operations teams that need to pinpoint the cause of why their online services are not working properly.