Internet outage history

Kuwait

Operational 9/9 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Kuwait since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of Kuwait RSS feed

Where our monitored hosts are Each dot is a place with monitored hosts; bigger dots have more. The country is shaded in its status now.

0incidents recorded

0total disruption

—longest incident

15outages measured since 2022

0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days

Jul 31, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days

Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours

BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours

Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in Kuwait since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at Kuwait · 7 days

Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types: Mirai (UDP) Flood 67% · UDP Flood 20% · SYN Flood 7% · SSDP Flood 1%
Duration: 45% longer than 1 h · 44% under 20 min
Size: 100% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from: Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P. 36% · Kuwait Telecommunications Company K.S.C.C. 28% · NATIONAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY K.S.C.P. 22%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in Kuwait, 4+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

15 incidents · 6 blackouts · 3 partial outages

Outages in Kuwait detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)	Duration	Worst level	Evidence
Oct 15, 2026 22:20	40 min	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 5% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:20	2 hours	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:50	50 min	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 36% of normal
Dec 23, 2025 22:50	25 min	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Oct 7, 2025 15:05	2 hours	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:30	30 min	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Apr 30, 2025 16:50	30 min	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Mar 28, 2025 12:00	12 days	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 28% of normal
Mar 24, 2025 12:15	4 days	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:40	2 hours	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 16% of normal
Jul 13, 2023 06:10	3 hours	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Oct 19, 2022 09:40	40 min	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal

Show all 15

Started (UTC)	Duration	Worst level	Evidence
Jul 2, 2022 05:10	50 min	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 37% of normal
Apr 9, 2022 11:25	1 hour	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Mar 21, 2022 21:35	2 hours	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Kuwait since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Kuwait.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.