Who is down right now

20 down now · 248 this week

Slack outage history and postmortems

Apps and SaaS · San Francisco, US · 7 incidents in 90 days · 99.41% implied uptime · last 17d ago

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MinorOct 22, 18:50 UTC
Slack Real-Time Connection Disruptionlasted 0m
MinorOct 14, 00:23 UTC
Single Sign On errorslasted 0m
MinorOct 9, 15:35 UTC
Slack for iOS closing unexpectedly when opening channelslasted 3d 1h
MinorOct 1, 12:39 UTC
Free Plan Customers Are Experiencing Message Failureslasted 6h 20mDependency
MinorSep 12, 11:04 UTC
Some customers experiencing blurry image previews and download issueslasted 8h 56mConfig change
MinorSep 10, 00:34 UTC
Trouble loading Workspace-level Apps & Workflows settings page is returning blank pageslasted 2h 40m
MinorAug 13, 21:21 UTC
Trouble Accessing Historical Messages With Custom Data Retention Policies Enabledlasted 32d 1h
MinorAug 6, 22:22 UTC
Trouble Using Search Bar For Some Adminslasted 2h 44mDeployment
MinorJul 28, 02:13 UTC
Feature Degradation Affecting the Receipt of Emails in Slacklasted 1h 30m
MinorJul 24, 08:22 UTC
Issue sending messages to channels via certain Workflowslasted 2h 24m
MinorJul 24, 02:18 UTC
Receiving reminders in Slack issuelasted 1h 2m
MinorJun 26, 09:12 UTC
Chat functionality unavailable on Slack Help pagelasted 57m
MinorJun 17, 22:33 UTC
Trouble loading SSO configuration settings for some workspace adminslasted 5h 41m
MinorJun 17, 00:38 UTC
Trouble performing some actionslasted 29m
MinorJun 16, 15:50 UTC
Trouble submitting workflow forms with file attachments on Android.lasted 6d 4h
MinorJun 16, 01:19 UTC
Slack Messaging issuelasted 0m
MinorJun 11, 22:13 UTC
Child windows displaying content at half heightlasted 1h 2m
MinorJun 10, 20:36 UTC
Trouble with Gmail add-on Integrationlasted 10h 3m
MinorJun 9, 15:24 UTC
Trouble adding multiple users to channelslasted 30h 18m
MinorJun 8, 19:00 UTC
Some users unable to sign inlasted 36m
MinorJun 3, 16:33 UTC
Administrators may experience errors in member management.lasted 1h 2mDeployment
MinorJun 3, 00:58 UTC
Trouble connecting or loading Slacklasted 49m
MinorJun 2, 16:16 UTC
Connectivity Issues Affecting Some Users in Europelasted 0m
MinorJun 1, 02:08 UTC
Partial Degradation Impacting Usergroupslasted 57m
MinorMay 27, 23:00 UTC
Trouble with Slack - General Slack functionality issueslasted 16h 21m
MinorMay 19, 20:51 UTC
Trouble uploading files and emojis in Slacklasted 1h 36m
MinorMay 18, 14:53 UTC
Huddle AI summaries not being generatedlasted 0m
MinorMay 14, 14:37 UTC
Issues affecting file uploads, message edits, channel renames, and channel creationslasted 57m
MinorMay 8, 18:31 UTC
EKM customers were previously experiencing issues with channel loading and message deliverylasted 3d 3hDeployment
MinorMay 8, 12:13 UTC
Scheduled Grid Migrations are experiencing extended downtimelasted 5h 31mCapacity
MinorMay 4, 10:00 UTC
Slow behaviour in Slacklasted 7h 37m
MinorMay 1, 01:50 UTC
Slack Search Feature Disruption - Japan regionlasted 0mNetwork
MinorApr 27, 17:11 UTC
Users May Not Receive Notifications on Slack Thread Replieslasted 3h 24m
MinorApr 23, 07:27 UTC
Slack Threads Not Loadinglasted 2h 24m
MinorApr 21, 13:46 UTC
Custom status not expiringlasted 2h 1m
MinorApr 20, 09:05 UTC
Users may experience delays due to increased load on bychan keyspace affecting system performancelasted 0m
MinorApr 10, 19:09 UTC
Trouble Sending Messageslasted 2h 35m
MinorApr 9, 07:58 UTC
Trouble with Slackbot and AI-powered featureslasted 11h 30m
MinorApr 1, 13:01 UTC
Slackbot button in the top navigation is disappearinglasted 1h 36m
MinorMar 29, 22:38 UTC
Issue with Sending and Receiving Messageslasted 2h 39m
About Slack

Slack Technologies, LLC is an American software company founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for its proprietary communication platform Slack.

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Apps and SaaS median
12h 49m

Slack: 12h 49m weighted downtime in range, category median 36m.

7 incidents, 0 major or critical, 10d 19h of incident time (0m major or critical, 10d 19h partial), longest 7d, implied uptime 99.41%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

Stated causes

34 incidents with no cause stated.

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Questions

Is Slack down right now?

Check Slack's own status page at https://slack-status.com for the live state. This page shows Slack's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-10-22: "Slack Real-Time Connection Disruption".

How often does Slack have outages?

Slack posted 7 incidents in the last 90 days and 41 in the last year, 0 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 6h 20m.

When was Slack's last major outage?

2021-01-04: "Overloaded AWS Transit Gateway takes Slack down on the first workday of 2021", lasting 2h 18m.

What usually causes Slack incidents?

Where Slack explained the cause, the most common was deployment or rollout (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.