Is Bluesky Down?

Is Bluesky down right now?

The verdict at the top of this page answers that question with live data: three independent probes hit the public Bluesky API — profile, feed and search — and their combined result is shown as Operational, Possible issue or Possible outage. If all three answer quickly, the network is healthy from this vantage point; if two or more fail, the bluesky down hypothesis is likely.

Because the checks run from our server, they measure the public API, not your phone. If the bluesky status here says Operational but your app still misbehaves, the problem is probably local — see the troubleshooting section below.

How this bluesky status check works

There is no official public API for bluesky status data, so this page does the next best thing: it measures the service the way real apps do. Each probe calls a different public endpoint with a short timeout and records the HTTP result and latency. Results are cached for 45 seconds so a burst of visitors asking is bluesky down can't turn the checker into a load generator — and the Check Again button always fetches a fresh round.

The three-probe design matters because partial failures are common: search can degrade while feeds keep working. A single ping would call that "down"; this bluesky down checker shows which part is struggling.

Bluesky is up but your app isn't loading — now what?

• Pull to refresh or force-close and reopen the app — stuck sessions cause many bluesky down reports.
• Check your own connection: the bluesky status can be green while your network blocks bsky.app or its CDN.
• Try the web app at bsky.app in a logged-out browser tab — if it loads, the issue is your app session.
• Check the official status.bsky.app page for acknowledged incidents.
• Ask on another network (or a site like this one) before concluding the bluesky down report is real for everyone.

About this independent checker

This page is not affiliated with Bluesky Social PBC and does not claim to be an official bluesky status source. It simply publishes what the public API looks like from one independent server, refreshed every 45 seconds, together with a prominent link to the company's own status page whenever you need the authoritative answer.

Bookmark it as your fast is-bluesky-down reflex check — then confirm incidents on the official channels before tweeting about them.

What usually causes a bluesky down moment

Most bluesky down moments are boring: a deploy that rolled out slowly, a cache layer warming up, or one regional CDN node having a bad hour. Because Bluesky is federated at its core, individual PDS servers can also wobble independently — which is why your own posts might load fine while another account's do not, a nuance a simple is bluesky down yes/no answer never captures.

Genuine platform-wide outages are rarer and usually acknowledged on the official page within the hour. The value of this checker is the in-between: the quiet degradation you feel before anyone official says anything, visible here as a yellow probe minutes before your feed actually breaks.