How to check if roblox DataStoreService is down?

[Sandessat (Sandy)]

How can I check if roblox DataStoreService is down with a script? I am trying to make a script that when the DataStoreService is down then take the user out of the game (kick).

[bleintant]

What do you mean by “roblox DatastoreService is down”?

[Sandessat (Sandy)]

Well, when services are unavailable due to downtime?

[TheBrainy06 (Brain)]

you can wrap the loading of data inside a pcall. If in any case it fails, you can kick them like so:

local success, response = pcall(function()
  --Data loading stuff here
end)

if not success then
  warn("Failed to load data.")
  plr:Kick("Your data failed to load")
end

[regexman (reg)]

You could wrap : GetDataStore in pcalls to see if it failed or not

[ZacharyZaxorDDD (eddie)]

I believe you can go check out some available APIs related to that and maybe use HTTPService?

[Sandessat (Sandy)]

That’s correct, after investigating, a found a website that it’s connected to the roblox status page: https://4277980205320394.hostedstatus.com/1.0/status/59db90dbcdeb2f04dadcf16d

I can do an HTTP request on that URL and get the JSON file.

[Broskinie]

how does this work around plrs who are first joining the game though??