Is Flickr Down?

No — Flickr is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 306ms

Last checked 1 hour ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.flickr.net

Flickr uptime

100%

Last 7 days

100%

Last 30 days

100%

Last 90 days

175ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 34 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

34-day clean streak

Aug 22 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

ams

176ms

DNS 41ms TCP 4ms TLS 6ms TTFB 170ms

arn

326ms

DNS 185ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 324ms

nrt

311ms

DNS 123ms TCP 2ms TLS 4ms TTFB 310ms

ord

120ms

DNS 72ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 118ms

sin

588ms

DNS 340ms TCP 2ms TLS 4ms TTFB 585ms

sjc

172ms

DNS 79ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 170ms

syd

546ms

DNS 131ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 352ms

yyz

216ms

DNS 139ms TCP 8ms TLS 11ms TTFB 205ms

What Flickr does

Flickr hosts photographs for hobbyists and professionals, with groups, licensing and a long-standing public archive. Many people treat it as the durable home for photo collections built over years, and its images are hotlinked across the web, so an outage breaks pictures on sites that never mention Flickr.

What an outage looks like

Photo and video serving fails, so images break on Flickr and on any external site embedding them. Uploads stall or fail partway through a batch, leaving a set half transferred. Search returns nothing while browsing works. Login fails, blocking access to private photos. Stats stop updating, and print orders through the Prints component error at checkout.

What to do about it

Check status.flickr.net, which reports Photo and Video Serving, Uploads, Search, Login, Stats, the API and Prints as separate components, so broken images do not always mean uploading is affected. Pause a large upload rather than restarting it, since a partly transferred set can produce duplicates when the batch is run again from the beginning.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Flickr is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 18 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Flickr outage FAQ

Are my photos safe during a Flickr outage?

Photos already uploaded are stored and are not affected by a serving incident; they become temporarily unreachable rather than lost. The exposure is to an upload interrupted midway, which may have transferred some files and not others. Keeping your own originals rather than treating any hosting service as the sole copy remains the right practice.

Why are Flickr images broken on other websites?

Photo and Video Serving is the component that delivers image files, and a great many sites hotlink Flickr-hosted photos directly. When that component fails, those images break everywhere at once while the host page loads normally. Nothing needs fixing on the embedding site; the images return when Flickr's serving does.

Should I restart a failed Flickr upload?

Not while Uploads is reported unhealthy. A restarted batch begins again from the start and can create duplicates of files that did transfer, which then need deleting one by one. Wait for the component to recover, check what actually arrived in the photostream, and upload only the remainder.

Is Flickr down or is my account limited?

Free accounts have limits on how many photos they can hold, and hitting one produces an explicit message about the limit rather than a failure to load. An outage gives errors or timeouts instead. Check status.flickr.net first, then your account status, since limits explain far more upload refusals than incidents do.

Do Flickr outages affect the API and third-party apps?

The API is tracked as its own component, so applications that display or upload Flickr photos can break while the website works normally. Those apps usually show a blank gallery rather than an explanation. If a third-party tool is failing, check the API component before assuming the tool itself is at fault.

How we measure this

We request Flickr's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Flickr publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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