---
title: "Is Brown University down? Brown University status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/brown"
description: "Live Brown University status, what is affected right now, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Brown University down?

**Answer:** Brown University is up, but currently experiencing a minor issue.

- Status: minor issue
- Checked: 2026-11-07T02:00:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Brown University says: Minor Service Outage
- Official status page: https://status.brown.edu
- Website: https://brown.edu

## Affected right now

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-04 | [Oscar Connection Issues](https://stspg.io/byfgbglrccn8) | major | ongoing |
| 2026-10-21 | [Multiple services: Priority vulnerability patching - Please report problems](https://stspg.io/914ffxq9hm5p) | major | ongoing |
| 2026-10-20 | [Sporadic errors for several unrelated Brown services](https://stspg.io/0yzyzml1b3j4) | major | ongoing |

| Component | Status |
| --- | --- |
| [Other / Other](/status/brown/other.md) | partial outage |
| [Research / Oscar High Performance Computing](/status/brown/oscar-high-performance-computing.md) | partial outage |

## Last 45 days

0 of 2 tracked days without issues.

| Day | Worst status |
| --- | --- |
| 2026-11-07 | minor issue |
| 2026-11-06 | minor issue |

## Recent incidents

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-04 | [Oscar Connection Issues](https://stspg.io/byfgbglrccn8) | major | ongoing |
| 2026-11-04 | [Cisco Voicemail Popup Error](https://stspg.io/jj8rhx0gqs3f) | minor | 1h 25m |
| 2026-10-27 | [Critical maintenance beginning 5pm: University Telephone Service](https://stspg.io/74jnr2p8fbr6) | maintenance | 8h 44m |
| 2026-10-26 | [Critical maintenance starting at 2pm: Small disruptions possible](https://stspg.io/508t4418d0h9) | incident | 1d 1h |
| 2026-10-22 | [Temporary halt to Globus collection creation](https://stspg.io/zf1hkz3b3fzb) | major | 4d 22h |

## Components (96)

2 with issues (listed above), 94 operational.

Each component has its own page: /status/brown/{component}.md, for example /status/brown/25live-space-scheduling.md

## Links

- HTML page: /status/brown
- Upstream: https://status.brown.edu
- All services: /status.md