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Status API

Live verdicts, regional checks, report counts and outage history as JSON. CORS is open, so you can call it straight from a browser.

Limits

  • No key: 30 requests per minute per network. Free.
  • API key: 600 requests per minute. $19/mo.
  • Over the limit you get 429 with Retry-After: 60. Responses are cached for up to 30 seconds.

Endpoints

GET /api/v1/status/<slug>

Current verdict for one service: level, confidence, regions, official status, report counts and the last check time.

curl https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/status/github
{
  "service": { "slug": "github", "name": "GitHub", "url": "https://damnisitdown.com/status/github" },
  "verdict": { "level": "operational", "title": "GitHub is up", "summary": "…" },
  "confidence": 0.92,
  "regions": [ { "region": "enam", "label": "US East", "ok": true, "latency_ms": 81, "checked_at": "2026-10-31T14:02:11.000Z" } ],
  "official": { "indicator": "none", "description": "All Systems Operational" },
  "reports": { "last_15m": 0, "last_60m": 1, "baseline_per_hour": 0.4 },
  "last_checked": "2026-10-31T14:03:00.000Z"
}

GET /api/v1/services

Every tracked catalog service with its slug and current level.

curl https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/services

GET /api/v1/outages?service=<slug>&limit=50

Recent outages, newest first: start, peak, recovery, duration, regions and related provider. Both parameters are optional; limit is at most 200.

curl "https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/outages?service=github&limit=10"

Using a key

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer diid_…" https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/status/github
const res = await fetch('https://damnisitdown.com/api/v1/status/github', {
  headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer diid_…' },
})
const { verdict } = await res.json()

Keep keys on your server. A key in browser code can be copied. Level values: operational, degraded, possible_outage, outage, major_outage, unknown.

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