User reports
0
Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
All services / Gaming
Is Essential down?
Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.
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.
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Your browser → us—
Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsAll clear · Near baseline
DNS (1.1.1.1 · Google)—
Your provider—
Connection—
Upstream—
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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.
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 47 min ago. Last stored result reached it in 597 ms.
Official status
All clear
All systems operational Official status page
Reports and checks
Numbers behind the chart
| Time (UTC) | Reports | Baseline | Latency | Failed checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 744 ms | 0 |
| 23:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 816 ms | 0 |
| 23:45 | 0 | 0.0 | 786 ms | 0 |
| 01:45 | 0 | 0.0 | 640 ms | 0 |
| 04:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 945 ms | 0 |
| 06:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 686 ms | 0 |
| 08:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 847 ms | 0 |
| 08:30 | 0 | 0.0 | 463 ms | 0 |
| 10:30 | 0 | 0.0 | 608 ms | 0 |
| 12:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 419 ms | 0 |
| 14:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 564 ms | 0 |
| 16:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 467 ms | 0 |
| 18:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 571 ms | 0 |
| 19:30 | 0 | 0.0 | 597 ms | 0 |
Reliability
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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Past outages
No outages on record for Essential yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.
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About Essential
We track Essential (essential.gg) as part of the Gaming group. The best way to play Minecraft. Enhanced Minecraft features in one simple mod. Fast, friendly, and for everyone!
Essential publishes an official status page at status.essential.gg; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
What usually goes wrong with gaming services: login and matchmaking failures, server disconnects, and store or download errors.
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: 668 ms average, 419–994 ms range across 16 successful checks.
Questions
Is Essential down right now?
Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.
When was Essential last down?
We have not recorded a public Essential incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.
What is Essential's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 8 days of checks.
How fast does Essential respond?
668 ms on average over the last 24 hours (419–994 ms).
Does Essential have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.essential.gg.
Essential 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 gaming services, watch for login and matchmaking failures, server disconnects, and store or download errors. If many people report Essential here at once, the problem is on Essential's side.
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