Is Linode down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Linode right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Linode 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 can't connect, website / app down, API errors, no response / timing out, high latency, DNS / site unreachable, 5xx error pages and lag or disconnects. Those are the options the report button offers for Linode, 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 Linode specifically, a single region or availability zone may be degraded while others function normally, or your instance's network path may be affected while the API remains accessible from your location. 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 Linode, try pinging or SSH-ing to your instance from a different network, and check the Linode API status endpoint directly with curl to confirm the control plane is responding. 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 Linode's side. Specifically: avoid repeatedly rebooting instances or recreating infrastructure, as queued operations may execute once service recovers and duplicate your changes. Reporting the specific region and instance IDs here helps others identify whether the outage is widespread or localized. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Linode publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Linode itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. 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.

Yes, at status.linode.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is Linode's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

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