Is Instagram down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Instagram right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Instagram continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, feed won't load, upload failing, messages not sending, can't post or comment and images not loading. Those are the options the report button offers for Instagram, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Instagram specifically, the feed, stories, direct messages, uploads and login are separate, and Meta rolls changes out gradually, so an incident can reach a fraction of accounts. Your feed can be empty while someone on the same Wi-Fi scrolls normally. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Instagram, open instagram.com in a browser. Working there but not in the app points at the app or its cache. Failing in both on another network points at Instagram, and trying a second account separates an account problem from an outage. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Instagram's side. Specifically: do not repost something that appeared to fail. Uploads during an incident are frequently queued and published later, so reposting duplicates them. Avoid changing your password or re-verifying, which needs the login service that may be the broken part. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Instagram does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe instagram.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Instagram says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Instagram or instagram.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Instagram's own support, not us.