Is Telegram down?

Live health probe of Telegram's api.telegram.org Bot API gateway and the public web frontend, run continuously from your browser. If your bot stops responding, this tells you whether it's Telegram or you.

What we're checking

• api.telegram.org — the Bot API gateway. If this is down, every bot on the planet is dead. Real outages are rare; brief 5xx spikes happen a few times per year.
• telegram.org — the public web frontend, including t.me redirects and the support pages. Independent infrastructure from the API.
• core.telegram.org — developer documentation site. Used as a sanity check that DNS + edge are healthy in your region.

If api.telegram.org is up but YOUR bot is down

Walk through this list:

1. Token revoked? Quick check with Bot Token Tester. If getMe returns Unauthorized, BotFather regenerated it.
2. Webhook returning 5xx? Inspect with getWebhookInfo — last_error_message tells you exactly what's failing.
3. Rate-limited? Look for FLOOD_WAIT_X in logs (see the error codes reference).
4. Removed from a chat? Try a DM-only command first to isolate. my_chat_member updates will reflect this.

Where Telegram itself reports outages

• @telegram on X — official channel for global outage announcements.
• Pavel Durov's channel — major incidents and infra changes.
• Downdetector — Telegram — crowd-sourced outage reports.