Azure status: is it down right now?
Our own check of management.azure.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
management.azure.com responded. The page answered normally in 136 ms.
management.azure.com responded.
The page answered normally in 136 ms.
Checked (just now) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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Azure status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
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About Azure
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform for virtual machines, App Service, Azure SQL, storage, Kubernetes (AKS) and hundreds of other services, run in regions around the world. Most Azure problems hit one region or one service, and Microsoft uses the public Azure status page only for widespread incidents. Smaller incidents appear in Azure Service Health inside the Azure portal, which shows only events that affect your own subscriptions. Every create, change or delete request, whether it comes from the portal, the Azure CLI or Terraform, goes through Azure Resource Manager at management.azure.com, and that is the endpoint this page checks. Apps you already run can keep serving traffic while management requests fail.
The official Azure status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours.
outage patterns
What outages typically look like on Azure
Cloud platforms like Azure rarely fail in obvious, all-or-nothing ways. The more common pattern is regional degradation: one availability zone or geographic region runs at half capacity while the rest of the platform serves traffic normally. Status pages often show green because the aggregate health check is still passing, even when a customer's specific workload is degraded.
The live tool above checks the public azure.microsoft.com endpoint from EU and US and compares status and response time. That can reveal a regional reachability problem, but it cannot prove that every Azure product, API, or customer workload is healthy. Use the provider status reference and test the specific workflow you depend on before drawing a broader conclusion.
Common signs Azure is having issues
- Temporarily unavailable pages or requests timing out during normal browsing
- Sustained response-time drift above the Azure baseline (usually a precursor to hard failures)
- TLS handshake delays during peak hours that resolve at quieter times
- Regional disparity: one geography returns errors while another stays healthy
What to do when Azure is degraded
If Azure appears degraded, compare the EU and US endpoint results, open the provider status reference, and test the exact region and workflow your system uses. Preserve failed request IDs and timestamps for support. If only one region fails, use an alternate region only when your own failover policy permits it.
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Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
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The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
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Historical data
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Frequently asked questions
Is Azure down right now?
See the latest check of management.azure.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If Azure is down, you can also check the official status page for extra context.
How do I check if Azure is having issues?
This page checks the public Azure endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when Azure goes down?
Add azure.microsoft.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find Azure outage context?
The official Azure status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Visual Sentinel checks the public Azure endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
Why is the Azure status page green when my Azure service is failing?
Microsoft uses the public Azure status page only for widespread incidents. Problems that affect a smaller group of customers are posted in Azure Service Health, which you open from the Azure portal after signing in. It lists events for your own subscriptions and regions, so check it before deciding the problem is on your side.
Which tab on the Azure status page should I check?
Current impact is split into Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East and Africa, so open the geography that holds your resources. Azure Government and Azure China have their own tabs because they are separate clouds with their own sign-in and management endpoints, and this page checks only the global Azure Resource Manager endpoint.
Often checked together with Azure
Many sites and apps run on these platforms, so one cloud problem can affect services that look unrelated.