Internet outage history
Qatar
Operational 11/11 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC
Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Qatar since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.
Overview
Last 90 days
Worst status per day, last 90 daysDaily reachability
last 30 daysOur probes · hosts reachable
last 72 hoursIODA · routes and active probing, % of normal
last 72 hoursLatency from our server (Germany)
last 72 hoursThe same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.
Incidents
All incidents
our probes and IODANo disruptions recorded in Qatar since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.
Attacks and context
Context only — they don't change the status above.
DDoS attacks aimed at Qatar · 7 days
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 57% · UDP Flood 42% · ACK Flood 0% · Invalid ENet Flood 0%
- Duration
- 49% longer than 1 h · 41% under 20 min
- Size
- 98% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
- Web attacks from
- Ooredoo Q.S.C. 44% · Google 30% · Vodafone Qatar P.Q.S.C 21%
Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar
0 possible hijacks of networks in Qatar, 3+ route leaks involving it.
Long-term history
Before our monitoring: IODA archive
14 incidents · 5 blackouts · 6 partial outagesOutages in Qatar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 40% of normal |
| Aug 10, 2025 07:30 | 30 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal |
| Jul 24, 2025 08:50 | 20 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 10% of normal |
| May 3, 2025 04:50 | 40 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 62% of normal |
| Apr 30, 2025 16:30 | 40 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal |
| Mar 29, 2025 10:10 | 3 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 33% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 20:10 | 5 hours | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 17:30 | 50 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 92% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 14:50 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal |
| Jul 6, 2024 11:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 76% of normal |
| Nov 19, 2023 12:40 | 50 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 26% of normal |
Show all 14
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2023 23:50 | 40 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 64% of normal |
| Aug 17, 2022 23:50 | 1 hour | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal |
Government shutdowns and blocks
since 2019The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Qatar since 2019.
Provided by Internet Society.
Submarine cable incidents
No submarine cable incidents recorded for Qatar.
Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.