Office 365 Monitoring: Microsoft Admin Center Outage March 31, 2021

On March 31st, 2021 at ~1:45 am UTC, Microsoft reported an issue that was preventing users from accessing the Microsoft admin center.

Shortly after Microsoft's initial report, Microsoft tweeted again stating that the issue was affecting users in the United Kingdom, France, and Central United States

At ~4:30 am UTC, Microsoft reported that they had restarted the impacted infrastructure and confirmed with multiple admins that the issue had been successfully resolved.

The Importance of Office 365 Monitoring

In a cloud-world, outages are bound to happen. While Microsoft is responsible for restoring service during outages, IT needs to take ownership of their environment and user experience. It is crucial to have greater visibility into business impacts during a service outage the moment it happens.

ENow’s Office 365 Monitoring and Reporting solution enables IT Pros to pinpoint the exact services effected and root cause of the issues an organization is experiencing during a service outage by providing:

• The ability to monitor entire environments in one place with ENow’s OneLook dashboard which makes identifying a problem fast and easy without having to scramble through Twitter and the Service Health Dashboard looking for answers.
• A full picture of all services and subset of services affected during an outage with ENow’s remote probes which covers several Office 365 apps and other cloud-based collaboration services.

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