Announcements for MSFS service outages have been spotty at best. If an outage bulletin is posted by one of the CMs you’ll find it in one of the following places:
- News and Announcments (Assuming it isn’t a forum outage)
- MSFS Discord in the #announcements channel
- Twitter on one of these feeds @MSFS_Support or @MSFSofficial
Alternatively, if the outage is related to an Xbox component such as Authentication, you can view the Xbox Status page.
I have been pushing internally for a service status page that would automatically monitor MSFS related services, providing us with a venue to see if outages are present. Ideally, it would also have the ability to send out alerts through various channels as needed.
Fingers crossed we get something along those lines at some point.