Is It Down? Screensaver
The Is It Down? screensaver reads the published operational status of seven services that a great deal of the internet depends on, directly from the status pages each company operates. When one of them is having a bad morning, this says so — usually before the incident reaches the news. It runs in the browser with nothing to install; press ESC to exit.
How the Is It Down? screensaver works
The saver reads Each provider's own Statuspage API, which exposes a machine-readable status.json.
No account and no key: the request goes straight from your browser, or from this site's own refreshed copy of the feed where the source does not allow browser access.
Values are drawn on a canvas that resizes with the window, so it works on a laptop or a wall display.
If the source is unreachable the saver says so on screen rather than showing stale numbers as though they were current.
A worked example
Seven rows, each with a coloured dot: green for operational, amber for a minor incident, orange or red for major and critical, blue for scheduled maintenance. The heading counts how many are in trouble, so a glance is enough. Each service is fetched independently, so one unreachable status page greys out a single row instead of emptying the board.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display without changing the data.
- Add it to a Multi-view grid to watch it alongside other live savers.
- Press ESC at any time to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the status come from?
- From each company's own status page. Statuspage-hosted pages expose a machine-readable endpoint, so this is the operational state the provider is publishing to the world, not an outside guess.
- Will this catch an outage the company has not admitted yet?
- No. It reflects what the provider has published. Companies sometimes update their status page after users notice, so treat a green board as the official position rather than proof that everything works.
- Is this real data?
- Yes. It comes from Each provider's own Statuspage API, which exposes a machine-readable status.json. Nothing is invented or simulated, and if the source cannot be reached the saver reports that instead of drawing something plausible.
- Does it cost anything or need an account?
- No. Every screensaver here is free, runs in the browser and needs no sign-up. This one uses a public API that requires no key.