Subscribe to the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard RSS Feed in Outlook

*UPDATE* We have deprecated the Service Health Dashboard RSS Feed. For service health updates, you can go to https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/servicestatus.

Periodically, services in Office 365 may become affected by a number of things (network availability, regional network disruptions, upgrades to the service environment, etc). You can stay on top of these updates by subscribing to the service health dashboard.

1. Navigate to Service Health Dashboard at https://portal.office.com/default.aspx#ServiceStatusPage
   
2. Select RSS in the upper-right hand corner.
   
3. Select the URL and copy it to the clipboard.
   
4. Launch Outlook.
5. Select File > Account Settings > Account Settings…
   
6. Select RSS Feeds tab and click New.
   
7. Paste in the URL that you copied to your clipboard and click Add.
   
8. Click Change Folder if you want it to be delivered to another folder (such as Inbox or create a new folder).
   
9. Click OK twice and Close.
   
10. RSS Feed for Service Health Dashboard will be downloaded to the folder you specified.
    

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2016
  I'm not seeing any RSS icon on https://portal.office.com/default.aspx#ServiceStatusPage . Has it moved?
  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2016
    We actually just discontinued it.
    • Anonymous
      August 26, 2016
      Why was this discontinued? Is there another way to get this feed information? I'm wanting to create a gadget in Service-Now so our IT Helpdesk can monitor O365 health status. This would be nice.
      • Anonymous
        August 31, 2016
        If you have Systems Center Operations Manager, you can use the Office 365 management pack to pull the information in and then generate alerts and notifications as needed.
        • Anonymous
          September 14, 2016
          It's a little sad that this has been decommissioned, the RSS notifications were great.
        • Anonymous
          October 03, 2016
          We also were going to use this for our helpdesk staff. Any chance on getting it back online?
• Anonymous
  October 12, 2016
  Since this feature was discontinued then what are we supposed to use for Email notifications? has this been replaced by the o365 Admin app? can the app be configured to notify when those changes occur (Degraded, SErvice Restored, Restoring service, e,t,c?
  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2016
    What's the plan to bring this back? I need a way to create a dashboard for techs to know if O365 is having an issue.
    • Anonymous
      March 07, 2017
      is there a uservoice ticket for this somewhere? what can i do to keep my users informed about potential problems that they not all come to me to ask the same question?
• Anonymous
  April 27, 2017
  What a pity that they took down that RSS feed. Was just trying to implement a feature for our support desk at ren-it.net. Figured out an alternative solution: https://twitter.com/office365status
  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2017
    Does this get updated for any issue? I found two today that weren't reported in the Twitter feed.
• Anonymous
  August 28, 2018
  Can we use Flow to monitor service health? Would seem a pretty obvious way forward?
  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2018
    At this point, no. There aren't any connectors to pull that data in.