Mechanical Turk recently launched a dedicated Service Health Dashboard for our services on the Requester and Worker websites. The Service Health Dashboard communicates both general service availabilities and events that impact our customers. You can find the Service Health Dashboard on https://www.mturk.com/status or via the web page footer on any of the mturk.com pages.
We monitor the health of our services for interruptions, performance issues, and other customer-impacting events on a continual basis. We will post updates to the Service Health Dashboard to inform you of these events as we detect them. When you see an event reported, you will see what services are impacted, the severity of the event, the current status and a history of status updates for the event. Below is an illustration of abnormal events being reported for interruptions (Requester service) and performance issue (Worker service):
Status and event history are archived for 35 days. You can browse the historical data in the Status History section:
If you experience problems using any of Mechanical Turk services, visit the Service Health Dashboard to determine if the problem is unique to your local environment or if there is a site-wide event that impacts all customers. If you experience an issue using our services but the issue is not reported on our Service Health Dashboard, please let us know by using the Requester Contact Us form and/or Worker Contact Us form.