Government-ordered Internet shutdowns in conjunction with national exams have been occurring in Syria for several years. These shutdowns disconnect most of the country from the rest of the Internet. In this example from June 2020, IODA's data and visualizations clearly show the pattern of these outages.

On January 16 2020, undersea cable infrastructure problems severely disrupted Internet connectivity in several West African countries. IODA detected significant outages affecting the Republic of Congo, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola during this time.

Amid widespread protests against the government, on November 16 2019, Iran experienced one of the most severe government-ordered Internet outages. This detailed analysis shows how most Iranian users were affected for nearly a week. Amnesty International used IODA's data in an investigation correlating this Internet shutdown with the killing of hundreds of Iranians.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) amplification attack leveraging the DNS and CLDAP protocols and using the "carpet bombing" approach resulted in a multi-hour Internet outage for South Africa's largest Internet service provider on September 21 2019.

On May 13 2019, IODA detected a significant Internet outage affecting China that began at 7:30 PM UTC and continued for several hours. The outage was reported by several sources, including ThousandEyes and InternetIntelligence but its cause remains unclear.

In March 2019, Venezuela was affected by several power outages. IODA's data also shows the cascading failures affecting the power grid as repeated efforts at restoration obtained temporary success.

In late December 2018, IODA detected a large-scale Internet outage affecting CenturyLink, a major residential Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the U.S. The outage lasted for more than a day and reportedly affected millions of users and was caused by "malformed management packets", according to an FCC report.

In the first week of October 2016, IODA detected nearly daily outages that significantly affected Iraqi Internet connectivity.

In early September 2016, IODA detected daily outages in Gabon that significantly affected Internet connectivity. These outages were widely reported (e.g., by CNN, Cloudflare, Akamai, etc.) and were "initially imposed amid clashes between opposition protesters and security forces following the announcement that incumbent President Ali Bongo had won reelection by a slim margin".