Is CNN Down?
Reachable from all 17 checked regions
Average response time: 335ms
Last checked · checks run every 30 minutes
CNN uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 30 minutes. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 80 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
80-day clean streakReachability by region
Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.
What CNN does
CNN is one of the world's most visited news websites, providing 24/7 coverage of breaking news, politics, world events, business, entertainment, and technology. It reaches hundreds of millions of readers monthly through its website, mobile apps, and social media presence. CNN.com is a primary source of real-time news for readers globally.
What an outage looks like
When CNN.com is down, the homepage may fail to load or display an error page. Live video streams and breaking news tickers stop working. Individual article pages may return 404 or 500 errors. The CNN mobile app may show stale content or fail to refresh with new stories.
What to do about it
For news, switch to an alternative outlet like BBC, Reuters, AP News, or Fox News. If only the website is down, try the CNN mobile app or check CNN's social media feeds (@CNN on Twitter/X) which often continue to post during website outages. For live event coverage, try YouTube or TV broadcasts.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says CNN is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.
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How we measure this
- We request CNN's public endpoint every 30 minutes from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 17 of them.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage. - A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
- Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
- Where CNN publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
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