Is Xbox Network down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Xbox Network right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Xbox Network continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, can't join a game, store or purchases, party / voice chat and downloads failing. Those are the options the report button offers for Xbox Network, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Xbox Network specifically, account sign-in, the store, multiplayer and cloud saves are reported separately by Microsoft and fail separately too. You can be signed in and still unable to join a party, and a problem can hit consoles while the PC app works normally. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Xbox Network, run the network test in the console's settings, which checks the route to Xbox services rather than just the internet. Passing the internet test while failing the Xbox services test points squarely at them. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Xbox Network's side. Specifically: do not clear your local saved games to force a cloud sync. If the cloud save service is degraded, your local copy is the good copy and clearing it loses progress for real. Offline single-player works if the console is set as your home Xbox. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Xbox Network publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Xbox Network itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status, and it is linked further up this page. That is Xbox Network's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Xbox Network or xbox.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Xbox Network's own support, not us.