What is isUpMap and what does it do?

isUpMap is a real-time status heatmap that shows whether 80+ popular internet services are up, degraded, or down right now. It's useful when you suspect a third-party outage — for example, when GitHub pushes fail, OpenAI calls time out, or Stripe payments stop processing — and you want to check whether the problem is on your side or the provider's. The live dashboard requires JavaScript to render the heatmap, incident history, and per-service uptime.

What it monitors

The site groups services into categories rather than listing them one by one:

The site also offers a full status directory and per-service pages, such as "is GitHub down?" and "is OpenAI down?".

What you get from the dashboard

• Live up/down heatmap — a single view of current status across all monitored services, so you can spot a pattern (e.g., multiple cloud providers degraded at once) instead of checking each provider's status page individually.
• Recent incidents — a running list of incidents, useful for confirming whether a failure you just hit is already known.
• Per-service uptime — uptime information for individual services, helpful when you need to judge whether an outage is a one-off or a recurring pattern.

When to use it

Reach for isUpMap when:

• A dependency fails and you need to rule out a provider-side outage before debugging your own code.
• Several services misbehave at once and you want to see whether the failures share a cause.
• You're evaluating a provider and want a quick read on its recent reliability.

It is a status aggregator, not a monitoring tool for your own infrastructure — it reports on the third-party services listed, not on your site or application.

Practical notes

• The live dashboard needs JavaScript enabled; without it, you'll see the monitored-service list but not the heatmap, incident history, or uptime data.
• The site states it is best viewed on desktop, so the heatmap layout may be cramped on a phone.
• Status data reflects the providers' own reported states, so treat it as a fast first check rather than a guarantee — if isUpMap shows a service as up but your requests still fail, the issue is likely on your side or in the network path between you and the provider.