{
  "id": "palimpsest-news:ioda-outages",
  "slug": "ioda-china-outage-monitor",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/ioda-china-outage-monitor/",
  "signal_id": "ioda-outages",
  "headline": "0 independent IODA instruments are firing for China",
  "dek": "BGP, active-probing and darknet instruments provide a country-scale outage check distinct from content blocking.",
  "section": "network",
  "order": 5,
  "type": "measurement",
  "priority": "high",
  "status": "live",
  "published_at": "2026-08-24T02:04:27Z",
  "modified_at": "2026-08-24T02:04:27Z",
  "claim_fingerprint": "sha256:d11298f4540771d4f8f5b0489d93b613a353431d3c905c97f68eaca532a53560",
  "metric": {
    "label": "instruments firing",
    "value": 0,
    "unit": "count",
    "denominator": {
      "label": null,
      "value": null
    }
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "type": "observation",
      "statement": "The current IODA country reading has 0 outage instruments firing."
    }
  ],
  "evidence": {
    "url": "https://palimpsest.info/readings/ioda-outages-latest.json",
    "input": {
      "filename": "ioda-outages-latest.json",
      "sha256": "274665b1fe0b531bcb76673f1c9f5aaba86ffcc51445305d527d88839a0fa244",
      "bytes": 668
    },
    "source_timestamp": "2026-08-24T02:04:27Z"
  },
  "method": {
    "summary": "Shutdown-scale connectivity events, detected from outside China by three independent global instruments. Each event names the instrument that saw it; a single-instrument event is a candidate, multi-instrument corroboration is the strong read. The conformal signal is the per-day count of event STARTS.",
    "version": 1
  },
  "limitations": [
    "No firing instrument means no detected country-scale outage in this window, not proof that all local networks were reachable."
  ],
  "related_signal_ids": [
    "ooni-gfw",
    "vantage-fusion"
  ]
}