Skip to content

Outage tracker

Mastodon: incident history

The last 24 hours in detail, Mastodon's declared incident record, and our regional check results beside it.

← Back to Mastodon's check readings

We started checking Mastodon on November 2, 2026, which is 5 days ago. Everything below covers that period, not the full 90 days a longer-tracked service would show.

Email me when Mastodon reports an incident on its status page, and again when it reports it resolved.

One email when it is reported and one when it is resolved, after you confirm the address. No account, no card.

This is Mastodon's own statement from its status page, with our regional reading beside it.

The last 24 hours

What happened most recently, on one time axis: our own probe readings by surface, how many people reported a problem, and what Mastodon's own status page declared. Below it, any public chatter we saw about Mastodon and the extra probe it triggered.

The last 24 hours on one axis: what our probes read for each surface we check, how many people reported a problem, and what Mastodon's own status page declared. Three records side by side; none of them changes another.

Our probes, web
Our probes, api (primary)
Unverified user reportsNo reports about Mastodon in the last 24 hours, which is not evidence that nothing is wrong.
Mastodon's status page
  1. Networking outage at Hetzner: minor incident, from before this window to now, still open per their page.

Each check cell is the worst reading across every region in that quarter hour: one region that did not answer colours the cell, never an average. An amber cell is a reading that answered, but at three times or more its 7-day median for three checks running: slow is not down, and we say which. A filtered reading stays neutral, because a refused check is not a failed check. Report bars count reports as submitted; we do not check who sent them, and they never change our reading. The status-page lane is Mastodon's own declaration, shown as they made it.

Third-party chatter, labeled

Public posts from the last hour that mention Mastodon next to an outage word (“down”, “outage”, “not working”). This is what other people said in public, collected by keyword: not something we measured, and not the user reports above. It never affects the verdict.

No matching public posts in the last hour from the sources we watch.

Checks passing by region

Checks passing is the checks that passed, divided by every check we attempted, per region. Not interpolated, not smoothed, and never computed for a region with zero recorded samples.

RegionChecks passingProbes recorded
US-East100.00%427
US-West99.69%320
Europe100.00%294
Asia-Pacific100.00%178

Their declared record

Mastodon's own incident history, taken from their public status feed. This is their account of what happened, not our check reading.

Hetzner Connectivity IssuesMinor incident
Oct 31, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC to Nov 2, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC (1d 9h)resolved
their latest update (Nov 2, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Networking outage at HetznerOngoing, minor incident
Oct 20, 2026, 7:26 AM UTC, open for 16d 7h so farmonitoring
their latest update (Oct 20, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC): Hetzner's network seems to be working fine again. We are keeping an eye on monitoring to ensure it's fixed for good.
Hetzner Connectivity IssuesMinor incident
Oct 1, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC to Oct 2, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC (1d 5h)resolved
their latest update (Oct 2, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Website and API is downMinor incident
Sep 25, 2026, 7:43 AM UTC to Sep 25, 2026, 8:09 AM UTC (26 min)resolved
their latest update (Sep 25, 2026, 8:09 AM UTC): This was caused by a migration, which has been rolled back. All services are back online.
Degraded performance on API and websiteMinor incident
Sep 21, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC to Sep 25, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC (4d 3h)resolved
their latest update (Sep 25, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Website inaccessibleMinor incident
Aug 19, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC to Aug 19, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC (26 min)resolved
their latest update (Aug 19, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Elasticsearch issuesMinor incident
Aug 5, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC to Aug 6, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC (1d 2h)resolved
their latest update (Aug 6, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Elasticsearch issuesMinor incident
Jun 6, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC to Jun 6, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC (1h 2m)resolved
their latest update (Jun 6, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
Performance degradationMinor incident
May 28, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC to Jun 3, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC (5d 21h)resolved
their latest update (Jun 3, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC): This incident has been resolved.
DDoS attack in progressMinor incident
Apr 23, 2026, 9:48 AM UTC to Apr 24, 2026, 5:54 AM UTC (20h 6m)resolved
their latest update (Apr 24, 2026, 5:54 AM UTC): This incident has been resolved.

Showing the 10 most recent of 30 incidents Mastodon has declared in the history we hold.

These entries are Mastodon's own declarations, taken from their public status feed, shown separately from our own check readings. Their page publishes what they choose to publish: an incident missing here means they did not declare one, not that nothing happened, and an incident here is their account, not our measurement. Neither record ever changes the other.

Mastodon's own status feed works, so its declared incidents are the record and our probe events are not listed or counted. Our check results by region are above, as a reading beside the statement.

Full detail on what a probe does and does not prove is in the methodology page.