The Tor Project now has a status page which shows the state of our major services.

You can check status.torproject for news about major outages in Tor services, including v3 and v2 onion services, directory authorities, our website (torproject.org), and the check.torproject.org tool. The status page also displays outages related to Tor internal services, like our GitLab instance.

This post documents why we launched status.torproject.org, how the service was built, and how it works.

In 2019, mainstream coverage of privacy wins and challenges increased, and with that, so did coverage of the Tor Project.