Is Mastodon down right now?
No one has reported a problem in the last hour. Mastodon's own status page reports: minor.
About Mastodon
The Internet Archive first captured it in 2018. It ranks #2,801 among the most visited sites in the world on the Tranco list. It is hosted in United States on the Fastly, Inc. network. The service publishes its own status page at status.mastodon.social, which we read alongside our checks.
The most recent problem was a full outage on 29 October 2026 at 04:02 UTC, which lasted under a minute. That is the only incident in the last 90 days, 3 s of downtime in total, and 99.67% of our checks succeeded.
Reports, last 24 hours
0 reports · normally about 3 per hour| Problem reported | No reports in the last 24 hours. |
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What we checked
20:01:34 UTC| Layer | Result | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| DNS name lookup | mastodon.social resolves to 151.101.65.55 (AS54113 Fastly, Inc.) | pass |
| TLS certificate | Certificate from Let's Encrypt, expires 2026-12-14 | pass |
| HTTP, Phoenix | HTTP 200 in 0 s 3 h ago | pass |
| HTTP, Mumbai | HTTP 200 in 0.65 s · via bom1 10 min ago | pass |
| HTTP, Paris | HTTP 200 in 0.6 s · via cdg1 10 min ago | pass |
| HTTP, Singapore | HTTP 200 in 0.87 s · via sin1 10 min ago | pass |
| HTTP, San Francisco | HTTP 200 in 0.48 s · via sfo1 11 min ago | pass |
| HTTP, Phoenix | HTTP 200 in 0.88 s · via PHX 11 min ago | pass |
| HTTP, Cape Town | HTTP 200 in 2.07 s · via cpt1 3 h ago | pass |
| Content | Page title: “Mastodon.social” | – |
| Reputation | Trust score 100/100 · trust check | Established |
Outage history, 90 days
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 04:02 | Down · Mumbai: HTTP 503; San Francisco: HTTP 503; Singapore: HTTP 503; Paris: HTTP 503 | 3 s |
Common questions
Is Mastodon down for everyone or just me?
Compare the test from your browser above with our server checks. If our servers reach mastodon.social and your browser cannot, the problem is on your connection, DNS or network. If both fail, the site is down.
How do you know if Mastodon is down?
We request the homepage from 7 locations, check DNS, the TLS certificate and the HTTP response, and compare the page content with what we saw before. We also read the service's official status feed where one exists and count visitor reports against the usual rate for the hour.
What can I do while it is down?
Subscribe to the alert on this page and we will email you when it recovers. Clearing your DNS cache or switching networks only helps when our servers can reach the site and your browser cannot.