Is Instagram down?

The status at the top of this page reads three sources, refreshed every 60 seconds: Hyperping checks of Instagram, run every minute, its official status page, metastatus.com, and the reports of visitors. Green means the latest checks succeeded; red means they are failing, confirmed from several regions; amber means they pass while the status page reports a major incident or users report problems far above the usual rate.

We monitor 2 Instagram services every minute, in turn from Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore: Website (www.instagram.com, up on a successful response) and Instagram API (graph.instagram.com, up on a 400 response). When a check fails, other regions check again before that service counts as down. Instagram counts as down when all of them are, and as partly down when only some are.

An outage can be partial: one feature, one app, one country or one internet provider, and our checks see Instagram from data centers. Try another network such as mobile data, update or restart the app, and check the official status page for an incident on one feature.

Yes, metastatus.com. Instagram's team updates it by hand, so it can lag behind the start of an outage; our checks run every minute whatever it says.

Yes. Create a free Hyperping account and add www.instagram.com as a monitor: you are alerted by email, Slack or your other channels within a minute of a failure. The free plan includes 20 monitors, enough for your own site and the services it depends on.