OutageThursday 5 November 2026Ended 03:17
BT outage on 5 November 2026
Problem reports about BT rose to outage level at 02:17 Central European time on Thursday 5 November 2026 and stayed there for 1 h.
They peaked at 389 reports in 15 minutes at 02:32, about 78 times the usual level for that time of day, and 525 reports came in while the outage lasted.
12 other services had an outage spike at the same time.
Reports from Wed 20:15 to Thu 07:00
One bar per 15 minutes, Central European time. Red bars are the outage; the dashed line is what a usual day sees at that time.
Other services with an outage at the same time
Their reports also reached outage level while BT's did. Many services failing together can point to a shared cause, such as a network or cloud provider, but reports alone cannot show it.
- Outage
01:18–07:031,213peak reports
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Wed 21:47–06:02443peak reports
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01:17–03:32413peak reports
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Wed 22:17–03:02376peak reports
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01:03–04:33363peak reports
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01:18–04:03333peak reports
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01:02–02:32278peak reports
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Wed 13:47–07:02269peak reports
- Outage
00:33–02:18232peak reports
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00:33–03:03231peak reports
- Outage
01:18–03:18154peak reports
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01:33–03:03123peak reports
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