Is Slack down?
Live status for Slack (https://slack.com)
Last 24 hours
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About Slack outages
Slack is a workplace messaging platform, and because entire companies depend on it, even short incidents are disruptive. Slack publishes detailed component-level status — messaging, huddles, and file uploads can fail independently.
Slack publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
What to do when Slack is down
- Try the Slack web app at app.slack.com instead of the desktop client, since the two are updated separately and one can lag during an incident.
- Check status.slack.com's component list, which separates messaging, huddles, file uploads, and Slack Connect (cross-company channels) into individually tracked services.
- Confirm whether the problem affects only your workspace or Slack broadly by asking a colleague on a different workspace, since workspace-level issues do occur.
- Check whether file uploads or search fail while plain messaging works, since Slack runs search indexing as a separate backend service.
Slack alternatives to use in the meantime
Microsoft Teams or a Google Chat space can substitute for urgent work coordination if your organization already has access, though you'll be starting a fresh conversation history. Email works for anything non-urgent. For calls specifically, Zoom or Google Meet cover the huddle use case without needing Slack's messaging layer at all, which is useful if only huddles are affected.
Slack FAQ
Why won’t my Slack messages send?
Messages that hang with a retry icon usually indicate a Slack messaging-service incident, which Slack breaks out separately on its status page from calls and file uploads. Workspace-level problems affect all members at once — ask a colleague before debugging your own setup.
Slack huddles are broken but chat works — is Slack down?
Huddles use real-time media servers that are separate from text messaging, so audio can fail while chat is unaffected. That counts as a partial Slack outage on their side; switching to a call in another tool is usually faster than troubleshooting locally.
Is Slack down for everyone or just me?
We test Slack (https://slack.com) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check Slack's official status channels.
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