Lyft status
Lyft uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · 30 days
- 100%
- Response time
- 434 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Lyft down, or is it just you?
Multiple independent check rounds from rimetry's monitoring infrastructure, run seconds apart.
Our checks reached Lyft successfully in every round of the last check cycle.
| Check round | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Reachable | 100% | 970 ms |
| Round 2 | Reachable | 100% | 894 ms |
| Round 3 | Reachable | 100% | 712 ms |
| Round 4 | Reachable | 100% | 788 ms |
Based on 3,280 automated checks in the last 24 hours. Each round is an independent pass over the same endpoint, seconds apart — a single failing round is not an outage; repeated failures across rounds are.
What can be affected on Lyft?
These are the main Lyft functions that can experience separate issues.
- Login & authenticationTest signing in from a private browser window or another device
- Maps & routingToggle location permissions off and on if the map is stuck
- Driver matchingNo drivers found is often local demand, not a platform outage
- Live trackingRestart the phone if the live position is frozen
- PaymentsTry a second payment method before repeating a failed attempt
- Mobile appForce-close and reopen the app, then retry on mobile data
This list shows which parts can fail on their own. It does not mean any of them is failing right now — the live status above is the only claim we make about the current state.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Lyft appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Lyft
Lyft is a ridesharing service that connects passengers with drivers through a mobile application for local transportation. The platform handles real-time GPS tracking, payment processing, and ride request matching between two separate user interfaces. Service disruptions often appear as a failure to find available drivers, payment authorization errors, or the app being unable to pinpoint a user's location. This Rimetry status page serves to validate the operational health of the rideshare network by testing its API endpoints and main website from diverse geographical regions.
Problems with Lyft can affect login & authentication, maps & routing, driver matching independently.
Lyft (lyft.com) is a rideshare & maps service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.
Right now Lyft is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 434 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to lyft.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Lyft include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Lyft?
Rideshare
Lyft is part of our Rideshare & Maps category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Map or app not loading
- · No drivers found
- · Payment failures at ride end
- · Inaccurate location or routing
Similar patterns often surface across other rideshare & maps providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Test signing in from a private browser window or another device
- · Toggle location permissions off and on if the map is stuck
- · No drivers found is often local demand, not a platform outage
- · Restart the phone if the live position is frozen
- · Toggle location services off and on, then reopen the app
- · Check that the app has precise-location permission
- · Try booking from a slightly different pickup point
- · Confirm your payment method hasn't expired
- · Restart the phone if GPS is stuck on an old position
- · Check Lyft's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to rideshare & maps.
FAQ
- Is Lyft down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Is Lyft Login & authentication down?
Login & authentication can fail on its own, separately from the rest of Lyft. Compare the live status above with your own test of that specific function. - Where can I see past Lyft incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to rideshare & maps.