Is WhatsApp down right now?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

The two symbols point at different problems. The clock icon means the message hasn't reached WhatsApp's servers at all - that's either your own connection or, if it's happening to everyone, a genuine WhatsApp outage. A single grey check means WhatsApp's servers accepted the message but haven't delivered it to the recipient - most often because their phone is offline, though during an incident delivery backlogs produce the same stuck-on-one-check pattern at scale. If your messages to several different contacts all freeze at the same stage simultaneously, think outage; if it's one contact only, think their phone.

All three run on Meta's shared infrastructure - common data centers, an internal backbone, shared DNS and routing configuration - so a failure at that layer takes them down as a set. The October 2021 outage was the canonical example: a faulty routing (BGP) configuration change effectively removed Meta's services from the internet for about six hours, and even Meta's internal tools were caught in it. When you see all Meta apps failing together, there is nothing to fix on your end; independent reachability checks will confirm the scope, and service returns for everyone at once when Meta restores it.