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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...

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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.

Official Brown University status page

Live diagnosis

Is it just me?

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Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
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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.

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.

User reports

0

Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.

Our checks

Reaching it

Last checked 2 hr ago. Last stored result reached it in 205 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)ReportsBaselineLatencyFailed checks
Mon 1200.086 ms0
Mon 1400.0156 ms0
Mon 1600.0116 ms0
Mon 1800.0134 ms0
Mon 2000.082 ms0
Mon 2200.082 ms0
Tue 0000.0169 ms0
Tue 0300.0177 ms0
Tue 0500.097 ms0
Tue 0700.0199 ms0
Tue 0900.075 ms0
Tue 1100.0161 ms0
Tue 1300.093 ms0
Tue 1500.0146 ms0
Tue 1800.085 ms0
Tue 2000.0100 ms0
Tue 2200.0195 ms0
Wed 0000.0160 ms0
Wed 0300.081 ms0
Wed 0500.0116 ms0
Wed 0700.0198 ms0
Wed 0900.093 ms0
Wed 1200.061 ms0
Wed 1400.0144 ms0
Wed 1600.0108 ms0
Wed 1800.050 ms0
Wed 2000.0132 ms0
Wed 2200.0233 ms0
Thu 0100.0151 ms0
Thu 0300.0165 ms0
Thu 0500.042 ms0
Thu 0700.0125 ms0
Thu 0900.094 ms0
Thu 1100.039 ms0
Thu 1300.0116 ms0
Thu 1500.0171 ms0
Thu 1700.072 ms0
Thu 1900.0118 ms0
Thu 2100.0141 ms0
Thu 2300.054 ms0
Fri 0100.0193 ms0
Fri 0300.088 ms0
Fri 0600.0158 ms0
Fri 0800.0154 ms0
Fri 1000.0104 ms0
Fri 1200.0143 ms0
Fri 1400.0164 ms0
Fri 1600.0205 ms0

Reliability

Score 100/100 · grade A

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.

All Brown University outages · Every recent outage

Having trouble with Brown University?

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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: 134 ms average, 52–205 ms range across 12 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?

134 ms on average over the last 24 hours (52–205 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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