Questions
What does this page check?
Glide's monitor sends one barcode search to USDA FoodData Central, the database Glide uses for barcode lookup, and looks for search results in the answer.
Up means that the server gave the expected answer within 1 minute. Down means that it failed at least two checks in a row. A check runs every 5 minutes from one location, North Virginia. The history counts each failed check as 5 minutes of downtime, so one failed check shows there as an outage. These checks began on November 8, 2026.
What stops in Glide when USDA FoodData Central is down?
A barcode that Glide has not looked up before gets no USDA result, so Glide estimates the carbs from the photo. Readings, alerts and the nighttime call do not use USDA FoodData Central.
Is Glide itself down?
See the Glide server status.
What does Glide cost?
Glide is free: readings, the chart, followers, alerts, the nighttime call, the report and the Apple Watch app. Glide Premium ($4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, two weeks free) adds photo carb counting and My Lab's food groups.
