down.farm combines two independent signals to determine if a service is experiencing issues:
We poll official status pages (like GitHub Status, Cloudflare Status, etc.) to get the service's own assessment. Many major services use Atlassian Statuspage, which provides a standardized JSON API we can read automatically.
Real users report when they experience issues. This often catches outages before the official status page is updated. We aggregate reports in 5-minute buckets and display them as a 24-hour graph so you can see the pattern.
Every 2 minutes, a background cron job checks all tracked services automatically. This builds continuous historical data shown as sparkline graphs on service cards, so you can see status trends at a glance even if no one has visited the page recently.
No accounts required. Reports are rate-limited using a hash of your IP address — we never store your actual IP.
Because server farms go down sometimes, and we think status checking should be simple, fast, and maybe a little fun.