Is DuckDuckGo down?
DuckDuckGo is up
Right now
No. DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status.
No official machine-readable status
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/duckduckgo/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"duckduckgo"}
DuckDuckGo search and the Instant Answer API. It has no status page; UpButler probes the API.
What DuckDuckGo says
DuckDuckGo publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
Their site: duckduckgo.comWhat UpButler measured
Instant Answer API is answeringHTTP 202 · 409 ms
One request without credentials to api.duckduckgo.com every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 06:09 UTC
DuckDuckGo incidents, last 90 days
Without a machine-readable source there is no incident history to show. DuckDuckGo keeps its own at duckduckgo.com.
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[](https://upbutler.com/status/duckduckgo)Tell your outage from DuckDuckGo's
Declare that your project depends on DuckDuckGo. When one of your monitors fails while DuckDuckGo has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- duckduckgocurl -s https://upbutler.com/status/duckduckgo/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "duckduckgo",
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 202
}
}Questions
- Is DuckDuckGo down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:19 UTC, DuckDuckGo is up. This page reads the status again every 2 minutes.
- Where does this status come from?
- DuckDuckGo publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
- What does UpButler's own DuckDuckGo check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API (api.duckduckgo.com) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 200, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- How can my agent or app check DuckDuckGo status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/duckduckgo/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"duckduckgo"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or DuckDuckGo's?
- Add "duckduckgo" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while DuckDuckGo has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
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