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Buffer Outage History

Uptime record, past incidents, and downtime history for Buffer.

Checking current status...
56% uptime over 91 days
99.9% ✗ 99.5% ✗ 99% ✗ 95% ✗

90-Day Trend

Apr 11Jul 9

Monthly Uptime

Month Uptime Days Tracked Days with Issues
July 2026 77.8% 9 2
June 2026 73.3% 30 8
May 2026 32.3% 31 21
April 2026 57.1% 21 9

Uptime is calculated from daily worst-status snapshots. A day with any non-operational status counts as a day with issues.

Daily Status (Last 91 Days)

Apr 10 Today
Operational Degraded Partial Outage Major Outage Maintenance No Data

Incident History

July 2026
Degraded Performance
major

Started: Jul 9, 3:43 PM

monitoring
A fix has been pushed and the process to generate an API Key is working once again. We're keeping a close eye on this to ensure it stays stable.
Jul 9, 4:30 PM
investigating
We’re currently experiencing an issue with creating new API Keys and are looking into the issue.
Jul 9, 3:43 PM
Buffer MCP returning a 404 Error
critical

Started: Jul 6, 7:12 PM

investigating
Buffer's MCP is currently returning a 404 error for all operations. We're aware of the issue and we're taking steps to resolve. We're hoping things will be back up and working shortly.
Jul 6, 7:12 PM
June 2026
Issues with YouTube and Google Business Profiles

Started: Jun 22, 10:42 AM

monitoring
An update has been implemented, and connecting and publishing to YouTube and Google Business Profiles appear to be functioning normally again. We are closely monitoring the situation to ensure everything remains stable.
Jun 22, 10:42 AM
Google Business Profile and YouTube API issues
minor

Started: Jun 18, 4:49 PM

identified
The Google API is continuing to experience issues. YouTube Shorts are still failing to publish, and users are unable to connect to or refresh YouTube and Google Business Profile channels. Our apologies for the inconvenience. We’ll continue to monitor the situation and will share another update as soon as more information is available.
Jun 21, 9:30 AM
identified
We've identified that the Google API is currently experiencing issues. As a result, we're seeing trouble with new channel connections to Google Business Profiles, as well YouTube channels, too. Additionally, we have seen a decrease in posts being successfully published to YouTube channels. We're very sorry for the inconvenience this is creating and as soon as we have any further information we will update accordingly here.
Jun 19, 6:06 PM
identified
The Youtube API is experiencing issues, which is affecting our ability to connect to Youtube channels and publish Shorts. Our engineering team is currently investigating and will keep this updated.
Jun 18, 4:49 PM
Issue Connecting Threads
minor

Started: Jun 16, 3:34 AM

monitoring
The issue affecting channel connections between Buffer and Threads has been resolved, and we’re monitoring the situation to ensure things continue to run smoothly.
Jun 16, 4:08 AM
investigating
We’re currently seeing issues connecting Threads accounts to Buffer, and are investigating the cause. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and will continue to share updates here as we have them.
Jun 16, 3:34 AM
Meta issues impacting Facebook, Instagram and Threads
minor

Started: Jun 12, 2:09 PM

identified
We are currently investigating some issues with Meta's API for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. It appears that Meta is currently running into some difficulties and it will be impacting all services in Buffer related to Facebook, Instagram and Threads. This means we will be seeing issues publishing to these platforms as well issues ingesting data for analytics and comments. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this may be causing, and we will be monitoring things further and hope Me...
Jun 12, 3:22 PM
investigating
We are currently investigating some issues with Meta's API for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. It appears that Meta is currently running into some difficulties and it will be impacting all services in Buffer related to Facebook, Instagram and Threads. This means we will be seeing issues publishing to these platforms as well issues ingesting data for analytics and comments. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this may be causing, and we will be monitoring things further and hope M...
Jun 12, 2:09 PM
Buffer Service Disruption
major

Started: Jun 8, 8:27 AM

monitoring
We've identified the issue, and our team has rolled out a fix. We are now monitoring the system to ensure stability. We will keep an eye on the situation and provide a final update once we verify that everything is continuing to run smoothly.
Jun 8, 8:41 AM
investigating
We’re currently experiencing an issue with Buffer. Many users are reporting that the Buffer dashboard is not loading. Our team is actively investigating and working to restore full service as quickly as possible. We’ll keep you informed with updates here as we make progress. We sincerely apologize for the disruption.
Jun 8, 8:27 AM
May 2026
Buffer Stuck Loading
major

Started: May 28, 4:41 PM

monitoring
May 28, 4:52 PM
identified
May 28, 4:44 PM
investigating
May 28, 4:41 PM
Buffer Service Disruption
critical

Started: May 26, 9:49 AM

investigating
May 26, 9:49 AM
Buffer Service Disruption
major

Started: May 26, 6:44 AM

monitoring
May 26, 7:01 AM
identified
May 26, 6:55 AM
investigating
May 26, 6:44 AM
Instagram Publishing – Degraded Success Rate
minor

Started: May 23, 7:57 AM

monitoring
May 27, 5:24 PM
identified
May 26, 5:20 AM
identified
May 25, 8:58 AM
identified
May 23, 7:57 AM
Issue Publishing Posts to TikTok
minor

Started: May 22, 8:45 PM

monitoring
May 22, 9:08 PM
investigating
May 22, 8:45 PM
Issue Connecting LinkedIn Channels
minor

Started: May 20, 12:10 PM

investigating
May 20, 12:10 PM
Slowness and intermittent errors in Buffer
minor

Started: May 19, 3:52 PM

monitoring
May 20, 3:45 PM
identified
May 19, 5:48 PM
monitoring
May 19, 5:06 PM
identified
May 19, 4:28 PM
investigating
May 19, 3:52 PM
Issue Publishing Posts to Instagram, Threads, and Facebook.
major

Started: May 19, 4:18 AM

monitoring
May 19, 5:27 AM
investigating
May 19, 4:18 AM
Bluesky is experiencing issues
minor

Started: May 18, 11:51 PM

identified
May 18, 11:51 PM
Pinterest downtime impacting publishing and connections
minor

Started: May 15, 1:59 AM

monitoring
May 15, 2:27 AM
identified
May 15, 1:59 AM
Issue Publishing Posts to YouTube
minor

Started: May 13, 10:32 AM

monitoring
May 13, 10:50 AM
investigating
May 13, 10:32 AM
Issue with Channel Settings
minor

Started: May 12, 6:11 PM

monitoring
May 12, 6:29 PM
investigating
May 12, 6:11 PM
Issue with Calendar View of Publish Dashboard
minor

Started: May 5, 4:59 PM

monitoring
May 5, 5:32 PM
identified
May 5, 4:59 PM
Issue Publishing Posts to Instagram and Threads
minor

Started: May 2, 10:40 AM

monitoring
May 3, 8:41 AM
investigating
May 2, 10:40 AM
April 2026
Issue with Threads comments
minor

Started: Apr 30, 5:09 PM

monitoring
May 8, 4:31 PM
identified
May 5, 9:18 AM
investigating
Apr 30, 5:09 PM
Mastodon.social is experiencing issues
minor

Started: Apr 20, 11:42 AM

identified
Apr 20, 11:42 AM
Bluesky Service Disruption
minor

Started: Apr 16, 9:09 AM

monitoring
Apr 17, 6:18 AM
identified
Apr 16, 12:37 PM
investigating
Apr 16, 9:09 AM
Issue Publishing PDF Carousel Posts to LinkedIn
minor

Started: Apr 10, 10:53 PM

monitoring
Apr 14, 11:28 AM
identified
Apr 14, 1:57 AM
identified
Apr 13, 9:18 AM
identified
Apr 10, 10:53 PM
Issue with image cropping
minor

Started: Apr 10, 1:18 AM

monitoring
Apr 10, 1:40 AM
identified
Apr 10, 1:18 AM
Issue Publishing Image Posts to Instagram and Threads
minor

Started: Apr 6, 6:32 PM

investigating
Apr 6, 6:32 PM
March 2026
Issue Publishing Posts to Pinterest
minor

Started: Mar 30, 7:17 PM

identified
Mar 30, 8:06 PM
investigating
Mar 30, 7:17 PM
Issue Publishing Posts to TikTok

Started: Mar 27, 5:26 PM

monitoring
Mar 27, 5:26 PM
Degraded Performance
major

Started: Mar 26, 1:46 PM

monitoring
Mar 26, 2:46 PM
identified
Mar 26, 1:46 PM
Issue Publishing Posts to TikTok
minor

Started: Mar 25, 1:48 PM

investigating
Mar 25, 1:48 PM
Issue Publishing Video Posts to Bluesky
major

Started: Mar 24, 2:50 AM

monitoring
Mar 24, 3:29 AM
investigating
Mar 24, 2:50 AM
Issue Publishing Posts to TikTok
major

Started: Mar 14, 5:04 AM

identified
Mar 14, 12:02 PM
identified
Mar 14, 5:04 AM
Issue Publishing Video Posts to Facebook Pages
minor

Started: Mar 12, 3:03 PM

identified
Mar 12, 5:58 PM
investigating
Mar 12, 3:03 PM
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