View the status of your services
As an admin for Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses, you can view the status of your services, and find out when maintenance is scheduled for those services.
In the Service health section, you will find:
Current status:
Availability of each service or tool, for today and the preceding six days
Details about a service disruption or outage
Planned maintenance: Periods when a service may be unavailable
Note
You must be an administrator to see service health information.
The Service health RSS feed provides you with real-time access to information about service incidents and planned maintenance events. The RSS feed is updated when a new event is added or an existing event is updated. To subscribe to the RSS feed, on the Service health page, click the RSS link.
What do you want to do?
View current or recent history status
View planned maintenance
Translate a service health explanation into my language
View current status
The Current status page shows a table of all your services and their components, along with their status for Today and previous days. For more information, you can click the icons in the table.
To view the current status of all your services
In the header, click Admin.
On the Admin Overview page, in the left pane, under Support, click Service Health.
On the Current status page, click the down arrow next to a service to see additional components or features of that service.
Click an icon for details.
Current status icon descriptions and their definitions are shown in the following table.
Icon Icon description Definition Normal service availability
The service is available and has suffered no incidents during the reporting time period. This icon doesn’t link to additional information.
Investigating
A potential service incident is under investigation. More information will be provided shortly.
False positive
The service is healthy. A potential service incident that was being investigated didn’t actually occur.
Service interruption
The service isn’t functioning. Users cannot access their email, documents, or presence information.
Restoring service
The service incident is in the process of being resolved.
Service degradation
The service is slow, sluggish, or occasionally unresponsive for brief periods.
Extended recovery
Steps have been completed to resolve the service incident. However, it will take an extended period of time for service operations to return to normal. During this time, some service behaviors may take longer than normal to complete.
Normal service restored
An incident was active earlier today, but service has been restored.
Post-incident report published
A report of the service incident has been published.
Additional information
An incident was active during a previous day. The incident may be resolved or may remain active. Look at the Today column for the current status.
Note
Dates and times are displayed according to the time zone in your location and converted to daylight saving time as appropriate. During the hours when daylight saving time conversions are taking place, the time of your incident report may be affected, even in locations that don’t use daylight saving time.
View planned maintenance
You can view details about a planned maintenance event, including its date and time.
In the header, click Admin.
On the Admin page, in the left pane, under Support, click Planned maintenance.
On the Planned maintenance page, click the link in the Status column for additional information.
Translate a service health explanation into my language
If you click an event on the Service health page, the Details of the event are provided only in English. If you want to read the details in another language, you can get a translation of the information.
Go to the translation service at Translator.
On the Service health page, click an icon that indicates a service incident. Under Details, copy the text that describes the incident, and then paste it into the translation service where indicated.
In Translator, select the language you want the text be to translated into, and click Translate.