Is Instagram down?
instagram.com · Social media · official status page
Instagram has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 619 ms on average.
No problems detected
Instagram answered our last automated check normally, 14 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
Instagram problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If Instagram is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.instagram.com/ from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
- Slow to answer
- No usable answer
Having a problem with Instagram?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About Instagram outages
Instagram is Meta's image-first network and the second-largest product in the company's portfolio. Its architecture is unusually visible during an incident: The app shell, the feed ranking service, the media CDN and the direct-message service can each fail on their own, so people describe very different symptoms during the same outage.
The classic signatures are "Couldn't refresh feed", Stories that load as grey rectangles, Reels that buffer indefinitely, and DMs that show a permanent sending spinner. Because Instagram shares Meta's login infrastructure, a sign-in failure here usually means Facebook and Messenger are affected too. Posting and story uploads tend to break before browsing does, since uploads hit write paths that are harder to serve from cache. If the web version at instagram.com works while the app does not, the problem is more often an app release or a client-side cache than a platform outage.
What to do if Instagram is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached instagram.com normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Run the check again now to confirm.
The first thing worth trying
Check a second product from the same company. If Instagram and Facebook fail together the problem is the shared platform, not the app you happened to open.
How social media services typically fail
The app opens, your profile loads, and the feed spins forever. Posting fails silently or queues. Direct messages frequently keep working for a while after the feed has stopped, which is the clearest sign that the platform is partly up rather than down. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our social media status page, with more background in why websites go down.
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Instagram measured against its peers
How it compares with other social media services
Over the last 30 days Instagram ranks 2 of 7 social media services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and Instagram sits at 100.0%. The steadiest in this group is Facebook.
On speed, Instagram answers our checks in about 619 ms against a category average of 445 ms - Slower than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 185 ms and the slowest 1084 ms, against a 30-day average of 619 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every social media service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 57.144.180.34 and 1 other
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
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- Content type
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- Declared size
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- Transport and HSTS
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Five more fields about the server behind instagram.com.
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Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Expires in 7 days
- Issued to
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- Valid from
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- Expires
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- Protocol and cipher
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Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
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An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure. Check it yourself.
Instagram status: Common questions
Is Instagram down right now?
Instagram is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach Instagram when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is Instagram?
Instagram has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does Instagram have an official status page?
Yes - Instagram publishes one at https://metastatus.com/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
Instagram discussion
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