Fastly Status: How to Check If Fastly Is Down Right Now (2026)
Updated June 2026 · 7 min read · API Status Check
Quick Answer
Check Fastly status at status.fastly.com (official) or apistatuscheck.com/is-fastly-down for independent real-time monitoring.
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The Official Fastly Status Page
Fastly maintains an official status page at status.fastly.com. This page tracks real-time status across all Fastly services and global infrastructure:
What Each Fastly Status Means
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Try Better Stack Free →The 2021 Fastly Outage: A CDN Concentration Risk Case Study
On June 8, 2021, Fastly experienced one of the most significant CDN outages in internet history. The incident demonstrated how a single CDN provider failure can take down large portions of the internet simultaneously:
What Happened
A software bug in Fastly's network was triggered when a customer changed their service settings. This caused approximately 85% of Fastly's global network to return 503 errors.
Impact Duration
~49 minutes of major outage. Fastly identified and began fixing the issue in ~1 minute, but global recovery took nearly an hour due to cache repopulation and PoP recovery.
Sites Affected
Reddit, GitHub, Hacker News, The Guardian, BBC, Financial Times, New York Times, Twitch, Stack Overflow, UK Government (gov.uk), Amazon, and hundreds more.
Root Cause
An undiscovered bug in a Fastly software deployment was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Fastly had deployed software containing the bug in May 2021 and the condition to trigger it was present for 5 weeks.
The 2021 outage highlighted that CDN concentration is a systemic risk. Teams who had multi-CDN fallback or kept their origin accessible recovered within minutes — those who relied entirely on Fastly were down for the full duration.
5 Ways to Check Fastly Status Right Now
Official Fastly Status Page
Visit status.fastly.com for real-time status across all Fastly services and PoPs. Subscribe to email, SMS, or webhook notifications for incident updates.
status.fastly.com →API Status Check (Independent Monitor)
APIStatusCheck independently monitors Fastly's endpoints and shows real uptime data — not self-reported status that Fastly controls.
Check live Fastly status →X/Twitter Search
Search 'Fastly down' or 'fastly cdn outage' on X. Since Fastly outages affect many major sites simultaneously, reports appear extremely quickly on social media.
Search X for 'fastly down' →Fastly Real-time Analytics
If the Fastly dashboard is accessible, check Fastly's real-time stats (Observability → Real-time) for your service. A sudden drop in traffic or spike in errors confirms a delivery issue.
Fastly Control Panel →Check Directly vs. Through CDN
Compare response times hitting your origin directly vs. through Fastly to isolate whether the CDN is the issue.
# Check origin directly
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{time_total}" https://your-origin.com/path
# Check through Fastly CDN
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{time_total}" -H "Fastly-Debug: 1" https://your-fastly-domain.com/pathCommon Fastly Errors During Outages
These are the errors and symptoms you'll see when Fastly is experiencing issues:
"503 Service Unavailable from Fastly PoP"The PoP serving this request can't reach origin and has no cached copy. Check status.fastly.com and verify your origin health configuration. This was the exact error seen in the 2021 global outage."Fastly error: unknown domain"Fastly doesn't recognize your hostname. Usually a misconfigured CNAME or Fastly service not yet activated. Not typically an outage — check your Fastly service configuration."Stale cache being served unexpectedly"Origin is down or slow, so Fastly is serving stale content past TTL (if stale-while-revalidate is configured). Usually a sign of origin issues, not Fastly itself."Fastly purge API returning 5xx"The Fastly API (api.fastly.com) is degraded. Your CDN delivery may still work fine but you can't purge cache or update configurations. Check status.fastly.com for API status specifically."Edge dictionary / KV store not accessible"Edge side dictionaries or KV store reads are failing inside VCL or Compute@Edge. Often a partial outage in Fastly's distributed storage layer for your region."Log streaming stopped / delayed"Fastly real-time log streaming to your log aggregator has a backlog. Usually resolves once Fastly catches up. Check status.fastly.com for log streaming service status specifically.What to Do When Fastly Is Down
Immediate Response
- Confirm at status.fastly.com — check your specific PoP region
- If you have origin fallback configured, verify origin health
- Check if your Fastly service has "Shield" PoP routing configured — it adds redundancy
- Notify your team immediately — don't let engineers debug what's a CDN incident
- Check if DNS can be switched to origin or backup CDN
Long-Term Resilience
- Implement multi-CDN strategy (Fastly + Cloudflare fallback)
- Keep origin accessible for emergency failover
- Use DNS TTLs low enough (60-300s) to switch CDN quickly
- Configure Fastly Shield PoPs for origin redundancy
- Set up synthetic monitoring on Fastly-served URLs from multiple regions
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the official Fastly status page?
Fastly's official status page is at status.fastly.com. It shows real-time status for the CDN delivery network, Fastly API, Compute@Edge, real-time log streaming, and the Fastly control panel. Individual PoP (point of presence) status is shown for major incidents.
If Fastly is down, what happens to my website?
If Fastly is down and you have origin fallback configured, requests may pass through to your origin server — but origin may not handle Fastly-scale traffic volumes. Without origin fallback, visitors see 503 errors. The impact depends entirely on whether your service has direct origin access configured and whether your origin can handle bypass traffic.
Which companies use Fastly?
Fastly serves major internet properties including GitHub, Spotify, Reddit, Shopify, Twitter, The New York Times, and many more. This concentration means a Fastly outage — as seen in 2021 — simultaneously affects many high-traffic websites, making it newsworthy when it happens.
Is Fastly the same as Cloudflare?
No — Fastly and Cloudflare are competing CDN/edge platforms. Fastly focuses on developer-friendly, programmable CDN with VCL and Compute@Edge, preferred by technical teams. Cloudflare offers a broader product suite including DNS, security, and Zero Trust. Both have their own separate infrastructure and status pages.
How do I monitor Fastly status automatically?
Subscribe to email, SMS, or webhook alerts at status.fastly.com, follow @fastly on X, or use an independent monitoring tool that checks your Fastly-served URLs from multiple global locations. For proactive monitoring, set up synthetic checks from both inside and outside your target regions to detect localized PoP degradation.
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