Changes / Discord / Increased API Errors
Discord: Major incident: Increased API Errors
Summary
Discord reported a major API outage that prevented many users from starting sessions, beginning 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC and resolved at 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC, lasting 3 h 29 min. Users regained platform access during recovery, and Discord confirmed all critical functionalities had recovered for all users at resolution.
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What changed
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After: Increased API Errors
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After: 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC
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After: 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC
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After: We're investgating errors in our API systems.
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After: We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
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After: We are continuing to work to remediate the issues impacting availability for some Discord users. This is causing impact across our service, including logging in and sending messages.
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After: We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.
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After: We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
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After: We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
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After: Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
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After: All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: Increased API Errors (this change) Discord reported a major API outage that prevented many users from starting sessions, beginning 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC and resolved at 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC, lasting 3 h 29 min. Users regained platform access during recovery, and Discord confirmed all critical functionalities had recovered for all users at resolution. | Major incident |