Is Telegram Down?

Q: Is Telegram down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time Telegram availability. If Telegram is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/ for incident updates.

Real-time status check for Telegram (telegram.org). We check from multiple regions to give you an accurate picture.

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About Telegram

Telegram is a cloud-based messaging platform with personal chats, group chats, channels (1-to-many broadcast), stories, voice and video calls, and a powerful Bot API. It is heavily used internationally, especially in regions where WhatsApp or Signal are blocked or less trusted. Outages affect message delivery (messages show a single tick, not delivered), channel post fanout (followers don't get new posts), voice and video calls (fail to connect), Stories, or Bot API calls. The Bot API is the backbone for crypto-related bots, news alerting, and community moderation, so incidents ripple into every integrated service.

The official Telegram status page is at downdetector.com/status/telegram. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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We check from EU and US simultaneously. A service might be down in one region but not another, we catch regional outages.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Telegram down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Telegram availability. If Telegram is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/ for incident updates.

How do I check if Telegram is having issues?+

This page checks Telegram availability in real time. You can also monitor Telegram continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Telegram goes down.

How can I get alerted when Telegram goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for telegram.org on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Telegram status page?+

The official Telegram status page is at https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Telegram issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why do Telegram messages sometimes take a long time to deliver during an outage?+

Telegram's messaging servers are distributed across multiple data centers. Regional degradation causes your client to fall back to alternate DCs, adding latency. Your phone may show messages as "sending" for minutes while the client negotiates a healthy path.

Can Telegram bots keep working during a platform outage?+

Only if the bot uses long polling instead of webhooks and the Telegram Bot API itself is reachable. Webhook-based bots miss updates during API outages. Telegram does not backfill webhook deliveries, so bots with webhook-only architectures lose events permanently.