User reports
0
Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
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Is Brown University down?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Microsoft’s Cloud Services are Currently Degraded | Multiple services: Priority maintenance for security certificates - Please report problems | Multiple services: Priority vuln...
Source: the vendor's status page · We are not affiliated with Brown University.
What to try while Brown University is having problems
Estimated fix: Not enough Brown University history yet; similar Education outages lasted 2 h (median, typically 18 min–9 h; 11 outages).
- If the LMS or portal is down, email your instructor a timestamped screenshot and check the school's IT status page for deadline extensions.
Live diagnosis
Is it just me?
Finds the most likely layer (the service, your ISP or area, DNS, or your Wi-Fi) and gives two steps to try.
Your browser → brown.edu—
Your browser → us—
Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
DNS (1.1.1.1 · Google)—
Your provider—
Connection—
Upstream—
Press Run testYour browser tests the site, us, and two public DNS resolvers. We never store your IP; only anonymous counts by network and region.
Checks by region
Reachable from all 4 regions we check from.
US East · ORDReachable52 ms · 34 min ago
US West · SJCReachable168 ms · 34 min ago
Europe · AMSReachable286 ms · 34 min ago
Asia-Pacific · KIXReachable505 ms · 34 min ago
Live outage map
No reports in the last 24 hours.
Dots are whole states, provinces or countries, never exact locations. We never store IP addresses. Every report with a known place can appear on the map. Updates every minute.
What's broken
Recent reports
Each row is a time, a coarse place, and a problem type from a new report. Optional notes stay private. Places with fewer than 3 reports in the last 8 days are shown without a location.
No public reports yet.
Our checks
Reaching it
Last checked 28 min ago. Last stored result reached it in 165 ms.
Official status
Minor incident
Microsoft’s Cloud Services are Currently Degraded | Multiple services: Priority maintenance for security certificates - Please report problems | Multiple services: Priority vulnerability patching - Please report problems | Oscar Connection Issues Official status page
Reports and checks
Numbers behind the chart
| Time (UTC) | Reports | Baseline | Latency | Failed checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 133 ms | 0 |
| Nov 6 | 0 | 0.0 | 154 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 118 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 133 ms | 0 |
| Nov 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 96 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 136 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 126 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 150 ms | 0 |
| Nov 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 158 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 200 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 121 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 116 ms | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 0 | 0.0 | 82 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 169 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 144 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 101 ms | 0 |
| Nov 10 | 0 | 0.0 | 130 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 116 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 146 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 108 ms | 0 |
| Nov 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 132 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 151 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 94 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 116 ms | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 118 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 123 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 154 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 164 ms | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 165 ms | 0 |
Reliability
100%Uptime · 30 days
100%Uptime · 90 days
0 / 0Outages · 30 / 90 days
—Average outage
100% uptime · No user reports in the last 24h
90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 8 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.
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This week
Planned maintenance
OIT Planned Maintenance: Firewall Upgrades
OIT will perform firewall upgrades on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 beginning at 5:00 am and potentially lasting to 8:00 am. Network connectivity should be considered “unstable” during this window. While the upgrades should not cause any noticeable outages it will likely cause brief outages that would appear as hesitations or stutters on the network. The possibility of losing an SSH session…
Announced by Brown University · source
Planned maintenance is not an outage. Times and wording are the vendor’s own. Outage Weather →
Past outages
No outages on record for Brown University yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.
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About Brown University
We track Brown University (brown.edu) as part of the Education group. Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence.
Brown University publishes an official status page at status.brown.edu; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
Common problems for education services: learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration.
Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 8 days of checks. No public incidents logged since monitoring began 8 days ago.
Response time over the last 24 hours: 136 ms average, 52–205 ms range across 13 successful checks.
Questions
Is Brown University down right now?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: Microsoft’s Cloud Services are Currently Degraded | Multiple services: Priority maintenance for security certificates - Please report problems | Multiple services: Priority vuln...
When was Brown University last down?
We have not recorded a public Brown University incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.
What is Brown University's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 8 days of checks.
How fast does Brown University respond?
136 ms on average over the last 24 hours (52–205 ms). Latest regional checks: US East 52 ms, US West 168 ms, Europe 286 ms, Asia-Pacific 505 ms.
Does Brown University have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.brown.edu.
Brown University not working for me but the status is fine. What now?
It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For education services, watch for learning management systems and student portals slowing down around assignment deadlines, exams and registration. If many people report Brown University here at once, the problem is on Brown University's side.
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