Is Slack down right now?
Slack reports normal operation and user reports are at a normal level. This page updates itself every few minutes.
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Official status
Slack Real-Time Connection Disruption
Some Slack customers experienced disrupted real-time connections, delayed message delivery, and errors loading conversation history on October 22, 2026, starting at 16:08 UTC. A large number of active connections closed at once and then reconnected, which briefly strained the services customers rely…
- Why it is down
- The vendor has not said why yet.
- Started
- (10 days ago)
- Current stage
- identified
- Affected
- Messaging
Timeline and every update for this incident
9 more open incidents: Single Sign On errors, Slack for iOS closing unexpectedly when opening channels, Free Plan Customers Are Experiencing Message Failures
User reports
People press this button when Slack is not working for them. A spike here usually shows up before the official status changes.
Last 24 hours, one bar per 15 minutes. 0 in the last 15 minutes, 0 in the last hour, 0 in 24 hours.
While Slack is down
- Work from the files you already have open or downloaded; nothing saved is lost.
- Move an urgent meeting to a phone call.
- Tell the team in one message so nobody spends an hour troubleshooting their own laptop.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
Recent incidents
- Slack Real-Time Connection Disruption, open, identified
- Single Sign On errors, open, identified
- Slack for iOS closing unexpectedly when opening channels, open, identified
- Free Plan Customers Are Experiencing Message Failures, open, identified
- Some customers experiencing blurry image previews and download issues, open, identified
- Trouble loading Workspace-level Apps & Workflows settings page is returning blank pages, open, identified
- Trouble Accessing Historical Messages With Custom Data Retention Policies Enabled, open, identified
- Trouble Using Search Bar For Some Admins, open, identified
- Feature Degradation Affecting the Receipt of Emails in Slack, open, identified
- Issue sending messages to channels via certain Workflows, open, identified
- Availability, 30 days
- 100% by official status
- User-report spikes, 30 days
- 0
- Businesses watching
- 0
Common questions
Is Slack down right now?
As of 2 Nov 2026, 5:52 am, Slack reports normal operation. 0 user reports in the last 15 minutes.
Is it just me or is Slack down for everyone?
Compare the official status above with the user reports. Many reports from different places means it is Slack; none means check your own internet, sign-in or browser first.
What should I do while Slack is down?
Work from the files you already have open or downloaded; nothing saved is lost.
How do I get told when Slack goes down?
Add Slack to your free account. You get an email when its official status changes; Fast Tool Alerts adds two-minute checks, SMS, and alerts on spikes in user reports.
Get an alert when Slack goes down
Official status changes by email, free. Add Fast Tool Alerts for two-minute checks, SMS, and user-report spikes before the vendor admits it.