Question 1

What is Open University's uptime?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 90 days, Open University reported 98.30% uptime on its official status page. That figure is calculated from the public incident timeline at https://status.open.ac.uk — each minute of degraded, partial-outage, or major-outage status counts against the total. Sign up to Pingoru free to see Open University's uptime history rolling forward in real time.

Question 2

Has Open University had outages in 2026?

Accepted Answer

Yes — Open University has had 31 incidents reported on its official status page so far in 2026. The full timeline (start times, durations, components affected) is shown above on this page. Pingoru re-checks the status page every 5 minutes so the count stays current.

Question 3

When was the last Open University outage?

Accepted Answer

The most recent Open University incident was "OpenScience Lab (learn5) Maintenance Notification", which started on August 3, 2026 and was resolved on August 3, 2026. Pingoru captured this directly from https://status.open.ac.uk. See the full incident card above for affected components and the update timeline.

Question 4

How often does Open University have outages?

Accepted Answer

Based on the last 90 days, Open University averages 10.3 reported incidents per month on its official status page. Pingoru tracks each one with start time, duration, severity, and affected components — so you can see the pattern at a glance instead of digging through the vendor's archive.

Question 5

Where is Open University's status page?

Accepted Answer

Open University's official status page is https://status.open.ac.uk. Pingoru polls it every 5 minutes and renders the same data here, alongside every other cloud or SaaS provider you depend on — so you can spot multi-vendor incidents (e.g. AWS + Stripe + Cloudflare degrading at the same minute) without flipping between tabs.

Question 6

Is Open University down right now?

Accepted Answer

Open University is up. Pingoru checks the official status page every 5 minutes and flips this headline the moment Open University reports a change. Current status is based on 57 tracked services.

Question 7

How does Pingoru know if Open University is down?

Accepted Answer

We read https://status.open.ac.uk directly, using Open University's own status page. If the vendor reports an incident, you see it within one check cycle — not after someone manually marks the page as down.

Question 8

Where can I get notified when Open University has an outage?

Accepted Answer

Create a free Pingoru account and add Open University as a monitor. You can filter to specific services, pick severity thresholds, and route alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or a webhook.

Question 9

Open University's status page says the service is up, but I'm having issues — what's wrong?

Accepted Answer

Three common reasons:

• A real Open University incident that hasn't been acknowledged on their public status page yet — vendor status pages are updated manually and typically lag the first customer reports by 10–30 minutes.
• A regional or account-scoped issue affecting a subset of customers — these rarely trigger a global status-page change.
• A local problem: ISP / DNS / your own software. Try reproducing from a mobile data connection and from a different network to isolate.

If you suspect a real Open University issue that isn't reflected yet, contact their support to escalate. Subscribing here means you get the alert the moment they do post an update.

Question 10

Where does Pingoru get the official Open University status?

Accepted Answer

We use Open University's own status page at https://status.open.ac.uk and cross-reference their homepage (https://www.open.ac.uk). Nothing is read in a way the vendor hasn't explicitly made public — we use the same data their own dashboard uses. So our data is as accurate as what you'd see loading the status page yourself, but rolled into one dashboard alongside every other service you depend on.

Question 11

What does "Up" mean?

Accepted Answer

All tracked Open University components are reporting operational. No incidents are currently affecting service.

Is Open University down?

Recent outages & incidents

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Outage history