User reports
0
Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
All services / AI
Is Pencil 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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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 2 hr ago. Last stored result reached it in 85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 56 ms | 0 |
| Tue 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 148 ms | 0 |
| Tue 04 | 0 | 0.0 | 113 ms | 0 |
| Tue 06 | 0 | 0.0 | 94 ms | 0 |
| Tue 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 55 ms | 0 |
| Tue 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 42 ms | 0 |
| Tue 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 66 ms | 0 |
| Tue 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 50 ms | 0 |
| Tue 17 | 0 | 0.0 | 101 ms | 0 |
| Tue 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 71 ms | 0 |
| Tue 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 74 ms | 0 |
| Wed 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 81 ms | 0 |
| Wed 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 127 ms | 0 |
| Wed 05 | 0 | 0.0 | 150 ms | 0 |
| Wed 07 | 0 | 0.0 | 73 ms | 0 |
| Wed 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 72 ms | 0 |
| Wed 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 73 ms | 0 |
| Wed 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 85 ms | 0 |
| Wed 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 71 ms | 0 |
| Wed 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 94 ms | 0 |
| Wed 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 149 ms | 0 |
| Wed 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 71 ms | 0 |
| Thu 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 ms | 0 |
| Thu 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 69 ms | 0 |
| Thu 04 | 0 | 0.0 | 48 ms | 0 |
| Thu 06 | 0 | 0.0 | 76 ms | 0 |
| Thu 07 | 0 | 0.0 | 72 ms | 0 |
| Thu 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 40 ms | 0 |
| Thu 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 100 ms | 0 |
| Thu 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 80 ms | 0 |
| Thu 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 48 ms | 0 |
| Thu 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 154 ms | 0 |
| Thu 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 135 ms | 0 |
| Thu 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 45 ms | 0 |
| Thu 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 78 ms | 0 |
| Fri 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 89 ms | 0 |
| Fri 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 70 ms | 0 |
| Fri 04 | 0 | 0.0 | 86 ms | 0 |
| Fri 06 | 0 | 0.0 | 83 ms | 0 |
| Fri 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 31 ms | 0 |
| Fri 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 72 ms | 0 |
| Fri 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 1204 ms | 0 |
| Fri 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 132 ms | 0 |
| Fri 17 | 0 | 0.0 | 178 ms | 0 |
| Fri 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 105 ms | 0 |
| Fri 19 | 0 | 0.0 | 57 ms | 0 |
| Fri 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 35 ms | 0 |
| Fri 21 | 0 | 0.0 | 85 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 7 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.
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This week
Planned maintenance
Database Upgrade
We will be performing a scheduled database upgrade to improve performance, stability, and reliability. During this maintenance window, users may experience brief service interruptions or temporary unavailability. We will monitor the upgrade closely and provide updates as maintenance progresses.
Announced by Pencil · source
Planned maintenance is not an outage. Times and wording are the vendor’s own. Outage Weather →
Past outages
No outages on record for Pencil yet. Outages of 10 minutes or more get their own page here.
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About Pencil
We track Pencil (trypencil.com) as part of the AI group. Marketing has an AI operating system. Pencil aggregates every AI model, enforces enterprise governance, and turns production savings into media growth.
Pencil publishes an official status page at status.trypencil.com; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
Common problems for AI services: slow or failed responses, rate-limit errors, and API timeouts.
Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 7 days of checks. No public incidents logged since monitoring began 7 days ago.
Response time over the last 24 hours: 164 ms average, 31–1204 ms range across 14 successful checks.
Questions
Is Pencil down right now?
Checks are succeeding, user reports are near the baseline, and the vendor status page is clear.
When was Pencil last down?
We have not recorded a public Pencil incident since monitoring began 7 days ago.
What is Pencil's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 7 days of checks.
How fast does Pencil respond?
164 ms on average over the last 24 hours (31–1204 ms).
Does Pencil have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.trypencil.com.
Pencil 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 AI services, watch for slow or failed responses, rate-limit errors, and API timeouts. If many people report Pencil here at once, the problem is on Pencil's side.
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Community comments
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No links or domains. 3 comments per service and 6 total per hour, per device and network. New contributors get one visible comment; further comments wait for review.