Is LinkedIn down right now?

1. 1

   Read the live status above.

   If LinkedIn fails for us too, or LinkedIn’s own status page lists an incident, wait it out.

2. 2

   Try the app and the website.

   If one works, the other is the problem: update the app, or open linkedin.com in a private window to rule out cookies and extensions.

3. 3

   Check a specific feature.

   LinkedIn often breaks one feature at a time: messaging, notifications, Jobs or profile views. The official status lists each separately.

4. 4

   Switch networks.

   Work networks sometimes restrict LinkedIn. Try mobile data.

5. 5

   Locked out?

   If your password stopped working and you did not change it, treat it as a possible account takeover: use LinkedIn’s "Forgot password" and secure your email first.

• Applications. If Easy Apply errors out, check My Jobs before applying again: an application can go through despite an error.

• Scheduled posts and ads. Campaign Manager and Pages appear separately on LinkedIn’s status page. Pause campaign changes until they are green.

• Recruiter and Sales Navigator. They are listed as separate components on the official status, so one can be down while the main site works.

• Keep candidates informed. If interviews depend on LinkedIn messages, switch to email until the incident is over.

Feature-level failures

Many LinkedIn incidents affect one service, such as profile views or notifications, rather than the whole site.

Deployments

Frequent updates to a very large site mean some incidents come from a change that is rolled back.

Shared Microsoft infrastructure

LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, but it largely runs its own platform, so Microsoft 365 outages do not usually take LinkedIn down.

Network and regional problems

Internet provider and regional routing issues can make LinkedIn fail in one country only.

The biggest LinkedIn incidents and what caused them. Durations are approximate and come from public reporting and official reviews.

• MAR 31, 2026

  LinkedIn.com: members had trouble using several features for almost two days

  LinkedIn investigated and resolved the issue through its status page. Source: IsDown

• MAR 6, 2024

  LinkedIn down for tens of thousands of users the day after a major Meta outage

  LinkedIn’s status page reported the service restored that afternoon. Source: The Globe and Mail

Every minute our servers request LinkedIn's main endpoints, resolve www.linkedin.com through Cloudflare, Google and linkedIn's own nameservers, and read linkedin-status.com. We combine that with one-tap user reports, filtered for duplicates and abuse: a spike needs at least 12 reports in 15 minutes from 8 or more different networks.

Built to avoid false alarms: a failed request is retried before it counts, a single bad check never says "down" on its own, and a check that fails for reasons on our side is shown as inconclusive rather than as an outage. Limits: we check from one location, so a regional problem may first show up in user reports. Reports store only the problem type, a country code and anonymous codes that change daily; never your IP address. Protego is independent and not affiliated with LinkedIn. Last reviewed October 26, 2026.