Is Flickr Down?

No — Flickr is up

We cannot measure Flickr directly — it blocks automated checks — but Flickr's own status page currently reports no issues.

Last checked 4 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

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

Why there is no uptime figure on this page

The last time we fetched Flickr's page directly, our checks failed from every region we tried. On that evidence alone we cannot tell an origin refusing our automation from a service that is genuinely down — the two look identical to us — and we are not willing to call it an outage on a guess.

So we publish no uptime percentage for Flickr. What this page does show is each region's most recent result and Flickr's own status feed, which you can weigh yourself.

30-day history

Jul 19 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.

arn

HTTP 502: Bad Gateway

bom

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 205ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

cdg

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 92ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

dfw

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 101ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

ewr

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 17ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

fra

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 101ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

gru

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 131ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

iad

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 15ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

jnb

edge reachable

A static asset loaded in 561ms. That proves the edge is up, but not that the site works.

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 all 18 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 — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
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 — and when Flickr blocks our checks entirely, we report the vendor's own status directly.

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