Is Linear Down? How to Check Linear Status Right Now

Linear has become the issue tracker of choice for high-velocity engineering teams. Its speed, keyboard-first UX, and tight Git integration make it a daily dependency for developers, PMs, and engineering leads. When Linear goes down, sprint planning stalls, issue creation breaks, and the feedback loops that keep development moving go silent.

Here's how to diagnose a Linear outage, understand what's affected, and make sure your team isn't the last to know.

Is Linear Down Right Now?

Check these sources in order:

1. Statusfield — Linear status — real-time monitoring, updated every 5 minutes.
2. Linear's official status page — linearstatus.com shows component-level status with incident history.
3. Twitter/X — search Linear down or Linear app not working sorted by Latest.
4. Linear's Slack community — the Linear community Slack surfaces issues quickly from power users.

What Breaks During a Linear Outage

Linear's platform has distinct components that can fail independently. Knowing which one is affected helps your team understand exactly what's impacted.

Critical insight for dev teams: Linear's GitHub integration is particularly sensitive. When Linear's webhook or API layer has issues, PR-to-issue linking stops working, and cycle time data can develop gaps that are hard to reconstruct after the fact.

The Developer Workflow Impact

Linear is embedded deeper in developer workflows than most teams realize. Here's what breaks when Linear goes down:

Git branch naming. Many teams use Linear's auto-generated branch names (e.g., feat/lin-123-fix-auth-bug). If Linear is down during a sprint, developers either freestyle branch names or wait — neither is good.

PR linking. Linear's GitHub integration automatically links PRs to issues via branch name or PR body. During a Linear outage, this sync stops. Issues don't move to "In Progress" or "In Review" automatically.

Sprint ceremonies. If your standup or planning session hits a Linear outage, everything falls back to async Slack threads — workable, but disruptive.

Triage workflows. Teams with automated issue creation from error trackers (Sentry, Datadog) that integrate with Linear lose their automatic triage pipeline.

Linear's API for Integration Builders

If you've built on Linear's GraphQL API, outages affect your integrations directly. A few patterns to build resilience:

Check API Health Before Critical Operations

import { LinearClient } from '@linear/sdk';
 
const client = new LinearClient({ apiKey: process.env.LINEAR_API_KEY });
 
async function checkLinearHealth(): Promise<boolean> {
  try {
    // Lightweight viewer query to check connectivity
    const viewer = await client.viewer;
    return !!viewer.id;
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Linear API unreachable:', err);
    return false;
  }
}

Handle Rate Limits and Errors Gracefully

async function createIssueWithRetry(
  teamId: string,
  title: string,
  description: string,
  retries = 3
): Promise<string | null> {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < retries; attempt++) {
    try {
      const issuePayload = await client.createIssue({
        teamId,
        title,
        description,
      });
      return issuePayload.issue?.id ?? null;
    } catch (err: any) {
      const isServerError = err?.status >= 500 || err?.code === 'NETWORK_ERROR';
      if (isServerError && attempt < retries - 1) {
        // Exponential backoff: 1s, 2s, 4s
        await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 1000 * 2 ** attempt));
        continue;
      }
      throw err;
    }
  }
  return null;
}

Webhook Delivery Verification

Linear delivers webhooks for issue state changes, comments, and project updates. If your integration processes these events, build a reconciliation path:

// On app startup or recovery, re-sync recent Linear issues
// rather than relying solely on webhook events
async function reconcileRecentIssues(teamId: string) {
  const issues = await client.issues({
    filter: {
      team: { id: { eq: teamId } },
      updatedAt: { gt: new Date(Date.now() - 3600 * 1000).toISOString() },
    },
  });
 
  for (const issue of issues.nodes) {
    await syncIssueToLocalDb(issue);
  }
}

How Linear Compares to Other Issue Trackers During Outages

One reason teams adopt Linear is its performance — the app is fast and offline-capable for reading. However, write operations (creating issues, updating state) require API connectivity.

During a Linear outage:

• Read operations via the web app may still work if cached
• Write operations fail until the API recovers
• Real-time sync stops, so teammates see stale state
• Mobile app caches recent data but can't create or update issues

This is meaningfully better than Jira, which typically has no offline capability at all, but it means write-heavy workflows (daily standup updates, bug triage) are still blocked during an outage.

How to Get Instant Linear Outage Alerts

Engineering teams shouldn't find out about Linear outages from a developer who can't create a ticket. Proactive monitoring means your team lead knows before anyone else has to ask.

Monitor Linear on Statusfield and get alerted the moment Linear's status changes — before your team hits a wall. Route alerts to your #engineering or #ops Slack channel so everyone has context immediately.

Statusfield checks Linear's status every 5 minutes, so you'll know within minutes of any incident starting.

Start monitoring Linear →

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Linear down for everyone or just me?

Check linearstatus.com or Statusfield. If both show operational but you're experiencing issues, try a hard refresh, clear your browser cache, or check if Linear's desktop app behaves differently from the browser. If teammates on different networks are also affected, it's likely a Linear infrastructure issue.

Linear is loading but issue updates aren't syncing — what's happening?

This typically points to Linear's Sync component having issues. The web app may load from cache while real-time updates are broken. Check the Sync component on Statusfield specifically. If Sync is degraded, changes you make may be queued locally but won't propagate to teammates until the component recovers.

My Linear-GitHub integration stopped working — is Linear down?

Check the Integrations or Webhooks component on Statusfield. Linear's GitHub integration relies on webhook delivery — when webhook delivery is degraded, PR links, branch associations, and issue state updates from GitHub stop working. This can happen independently of the core app.

How do I get alerted when Linear goes down?

Set up Linear monitoring on Statusfield. You'll get instant notifications via email or webhooks the moment Linear reports an incident. Route alerts to Slack so your team has immediate context instead of discovering the outage mid-standup.

Is Linear down right now?

Check the live status at statusfield.com/services/linear for real-time Linear status updated every 5 minutes. If there is an active incident, it will be listed with affected components and timeline.

How often does Linear have outages?

Linear publishes its full incident history at linearstatus.com. As a relatively focused SaaS product, Linear's overall reliability is high — major outages are infrequent. However, partial incidents affecting specific components (sync, webhooks, integrations) do occur and can have outsized impact on developer workflows.

Does Linear have an SLA?

Linear's enterprise plans include an uptime SLA. For teams on standard plans, Linear's historical uptime is high but not covered by a contractual SLA. Check Linear's terms or contact their sales team for enterprise SLA details.