OutageDB

Unsplash outage history and status

Is Unsplash down right now?

No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
100%
uptime, 90 days
0
incidents, 90 days
—
median time to fix
Jun 22, 2026
last incident

Unsplash components

Backend Service

Image Service

Data Service

Frontend Service

Unsplash outage history

Nov: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Nov Dec: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Dec Jan: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Jan Feb: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Feb Mar: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Mar Apr: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Apr May: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage May Jun: 1 incidents, 362 min of major outage 1 Jun Jul: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Jul Aug: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Aug Sep: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Sep Oct: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Oct
Unsplash incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage. Shaded: before our complete history.
Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 UTC Increased error rate
API, Website, Search Infrastructure
 Major 6 h 02 min
Mar 2, 2026, 14:21 UTC Increased error rate
API, Search Infrastructure
 No impact 6 h 04 min
Feb 26, 2026, 20:51 UTC Elevated errors
Server Infrastructure
 No impact 46 min
Oct 20, 2025, 19:23 UTC AWS us-east issues
API, Website, Server Infrastructure, Search Infrastructure
 Minor 3 h 22 min
Oct 9, 2025, 12:03 UTC Partial search outage
Search Infrastructure
 Minor 3 h 46 min
May 20, 2025, 07:44 UTC Performance issues after DB upgrade
API
 Minor 10 h 41 min
May 19, 2025, 16:47 UTC Performance issues during database upgrade
API
 No impact 4 h 52 min
Apr 22, 2024, 14:03 UTC Elevated errors
API
 Critical 8 min
Feb 6, 2023, 16:41 UTC Performance issues
API
 Minor 41 min
Nov 30, 2022, 15:14 UTC Elevated API errors
API
 Minor 22 h
Feb 24, 2022, 16:54 UTC Increased error rates and connection timeouts
API
 No impact 1 h
Apr 30, 2021, 13:38 UTC Elevated error rate
API
 Major 1 h 06 min
Mar 17, 2021, 16:37 UTC Degraded performance
API
 Minor 7 min
Mar 3, 2021, 14:49 UTC Degraded performance
API
 Minor 15 min
Jan 26, 2021, 17:42 UTC Degraded API performance
API
 Critical 1 h 54 min
Dec 30, 2020, 18:11 UTC Elevated response times
API
 Minor 44 min
Dec 8, 2020, 15:25 UTC Stats and search issues
Stats visualization
 Minor 35 h 53 min
Dec 7, 2020, 17:24 UTC Increased error rate and response times
API
 No impact 6 h 16 min
Nov 25, 2020, 17:02 UTC Degraded performance
API
 Minor 1 h
Sep 28, 2020, 16:17 UTC Cluster issues
API
 Minor 3 h 03 min
Sep 28, 2020, 14:29 UTC Degraded API performance
API
 Minor 26 min
Sep 24, 2020, 16:26 UTC Partial outage
API, Server Infrastructure
 Major 12 min
Sep 14, 2020, 10:06 UTC Increased error rate
API
 Minor 6 h 37 min
Sep 2, 2020, 16:01 UTC Degraded search performance
API
 Minor 2 h 40 min
Aug 19, 2020, 16:19 UTC Increased error rate
API
 Major 38 min

50 incidents in our archive since January 10, 2018.

When and where Unsplash fails

Most affected, last 12 months

  • API2
  • Search Infrastructure2
  • Server Infrastructure1
  • Website1

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FAQ

Is Unsplash down right now?
At our last check Unsplash's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does Unsplash go down?
Unsplash reported 0 incidents in the last 90 days (0 major or critical), with 0 minutes of major outage: 100% uptime.
When was the last Unsplash outage?
The latest reported incident started on Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 UTC: "Increased error rate", resolved after 6 h 02 min.

Source: Unsplash official status page · RSS of Unsplash incidents · status badge for your site