Is Telegram down?
Telegram is up
Right now
No. Telegram Bot API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status.
No official machine-readable status
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/telegram/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"telegram"}
The Bot API that bots and alert channels use. Telegram has no status page; UpButler probes the Bot API.
What Telegram says
Telegram publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
Their site: telegram.orgWhat UpButler measured
Bot API is answeringHTTP 404 · 84 ms
One request without credentials to api.telegram.org every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 06:09 UTC
Telegram incidents, last 90 days
Without a machine-readable source there is no incident history to show. Telegram keeps its own at telegram.org.
Get alerted when Telegram goes down
No account. One email when our probe cannot reach Telegram for several minutes, one when it can again. You confirm the address first, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
On UpButler? Add Telegram as a dependency to route it to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
Status badge
Show Telegram's current status in a README or an internal wiki. It updates by itself.
[](https://upbutler.com/status/telegram)Tell your outage from Telegram's
Declare that your project depends on Telegram. When one of your monitors fails while Telegram has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- telegramcurl -s https://upbutler.com/status/telegram/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "telegram",
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "Telegram Bot API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 404
}
}Questions
- Is Telegram down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:15 UTC, Telegram is up. This page reads the status again every 2 minutes.
- Where does this status come from?
- Telegram publishes no status page; only the independent probe is shown.
- What does UpButler's own Telegram check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the Telegram Bot API (api.telegram.org) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 401, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- How can my agent or app check Telegram status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/telegram/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"telegram"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or Telegram's?
- Add "telegram" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while Telegram has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
Also check
UpButler is not affiliated with Telegram. Status and incident text belong to Telegram and are read from their public status source; the probe result is UpButler's own measurement.