Is WhatsApp down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached whatsapp.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 8d 3h.
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSAbout WhatsApp outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
WhatsApp is the default messaging infrastructure for much of the world - more than two billion people use it for personal chats, and in many countries businesses, schools, and even public services run on it day to day, so an outage there doesn't feel like an app failing; it feels like the phone network going quiet. WhatsApp runs on Meta's shared infrastructure, which is why its worst outages have struck WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram simultaneously - most famously the 2021 incident that removed Meta's services from the internet's routing tables for hours. Its delivery ticks (clock, one check, two checks) give unusually good clues about where a failure sits, and an independent multi-location check adds the missing piece: whether WhatsApp's servers are reachable at all, or whether the silence is just your connection or one contact's phone.
Common causes of WhatsApp downtime
Meta-wide infrastructure incidents - shared backbone, DNS, or routing problems that take down WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram together
Message-delivery backlogs where sends sit on the clock icon or a single grey check, then flood through in a burst once service recovers
WhatsApp Web and desktop sync failures that disconnect the browser/desktop clients while the phone app keeps working
Country- or ISP-level blocks and restrictions that make WhatsApp unreachable in one region while it works everywhere else
Not sure whether it's WhatsApp or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests whatsapp.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than WhatsApp being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
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.
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