Is Outlook Down?

Q: Is Outlook down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time Outlook availability. If Outlook is down, you can also check their official status page at https://portal.office.com/servicestatus for incident updates.

Real-time status check for Outlook (outlook.com). We check from multiple regions to give you an accurate picture.

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About Outlook

Outlook covers consumer Outlook.com email, the Outlook desktop app (Windows, Mac), Outlook mobile, and Microsoft 365 Exchange Online used by enterprises. Outages can hit email sending (queue backs up in Outbox), receiving (new messages stop appearing), calendar sync (meetings missing on specific devices), shared-calendar permissions, or the Outlook add-in ecosystem (Salesforce, Trello, Boomerang). Microsoft posts enterprise incidents on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center "Service Health" dashboard, while consumer-side outages are referenced on the public Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account. Desktop Outlook caches heavily, so a send-side outage may not be obvious until users check their Outbox.

The official Outlook status page is at portal.office.com/servicestatus. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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We check from EU and US simultaneously. A service might be down in one region but not another, we catch regional outages.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Outlook down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Outlook availability. If Outlook is down, you can also check their official status page at https://portal.office.com/servicestatus for incident updates.

How do I check if Outlook is having issues?+

This page checks Outlook availability in real time. You can also monitor Outlook continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Outlook goes down.

How can I get alerted when Outlook goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for outlook.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Outlook status page?+

The official Outlook status page is at https://portal.office.com/servicestatus. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Outlook issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why are my emails stuck in the Outlook Outbox during an outage?+

Outlook desktop queues outgoing mail in the Outbox and retries on a schedule. A send-side Exchange Online incident causes messages to accumulate. Once service recovers, the Outbox flushes automatically, do not manually move messages while the queue is retrying.

Does Outlook on mobile work when the desktop app is broken?+

Often yes. Outlook mobile and Outlook desktop use different client stacks (MAPI/HTTP for desktop, REST APIs for mobile). An incident in the MAPI/HTTP service affects desktop but not mobile, though both fail during full Exchange Online outages.