How to tell if Pokémon Go servers are about to crash

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by Sindy Cator on July 21, 2016 at 12:03 pm

Posted In: Apps, AR, Around the Web, games, gaming, Pokémon GO

Between overloads caused by too many players logging on at once, to hackers threatening to take down its servers, there’s a chance that you may not be able to play Pokémon Go when you want to. Thankfully, the fine folks at New York-based cloud monitoring firm Datadog have whipped up IsPokemonGoDownOrNot.com, a status page showing whether the augmented-reality game’s servers are fully functional or suffering an outage in real-time. The tracker on the site uses a logs in every 30 seconds using a Pokémon Trainer Club account and checks the servers’ response time. If a login takes more than 15,…