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Is Xbox Live down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached www.xbox.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 17h 33m.
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Checking www.xbox.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
How Xbox Live has behaved
Every figure here comes from HostTracker's own checks of www.xbox.com, not from the vendor's status page.
Response time
400ms avg · 769ms peak
What we check
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HTTP442 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
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Ping11 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
90-day uptime
100.000% over 2 measured days · 0 incidents
- Operational
- Degraded
- Down
- No data
Incident history
Last 90 daysNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About Xbox Live outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Xbox Live, now officially called the Xbox network, is Microsoft's account and multiplayer layer across Xbox consoles, Windows PC and the Xbox mobile app, and its own status page splits services into components like account and profile, store and subscriptions, multiplayer gaming, and cloud gaming, several of them broken out per platform. That per-platform split matters: a cloud-gaming outage can leave console and PC play completely unaffected, and a problem reported on console does not automatically mean PC or mobile is also affected. The most common confusion is a single game's own multiplayer servers being blamed on Xbox Live, when sign-in, the store and party chat are all working normally and only that one title cannot connect.
Common causes of Xbox Live downtime
Not sure whether it's Xbox Live or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
Account and profile sign-in failures that block access to Xbox Live features across every connected device
Store and subscription issues that stop purchases or Game Pass downloads while multiplayer and sign-in keep working
Xbox Cloud Gaming outages that are specific to streaming and do not affect native play on console or PC
Multiplayer matchmaking incidents scoped to one platform (console, PC or mobile) while the others connect normally
A single game's own online servers being down, which the game's publisher operates separately from the Xbox network itself
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests www.xbox.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Xbox Live being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, www.xbox.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 17h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.xbox.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 17h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.xbox.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 17h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, www.xbox.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 17h 33m. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No, that points at a Cloud Gaming-specific issue rather than a wider outage. Cloud Gaming streams games from Microsoft's servers and is tracked as its own component separate from the core account, multiplayer and store services, so it can be degraded while native play on console or PC works normally. If sign-in and multiplayer both work, the network itself is fine.
Xbox Live's status is often broken down per platform, so an incident affecting console can leave Windows PC and the mobile app unaffected, or the reverse. It's not a contradiction - each platform connects through somewhat different infrastructure for multiplayer even though the account layer is shared. Comparing notes with someone on a different platform is a genuinely useful way to narrow down whether it's platform-specific.
Not necessarily. Most online games run their own multiplayer servers through the publisher rather than through Microsoft directly, so a single title failing to connect while everything else on Xbox Live, including sign-in, the store and party chat, works normally usually points at that game's own servers rather than the network itself.
The service was officially renamed the Xbox network back in 2021, but Xbox Live is still the name most people search and it still points at the same underlying account, multiplayer and store infrastructure behind Xbox consoles, PC and the mobile app, so searching either name finds the same status.
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