# 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. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/yj8w3fd3p7jn](https://stspg.io/yj8w3fd3p7jn)
- [Company: Discord](https://rewindex.com/company/discord.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:99/4hpm4454hxtx@5b1ec1477f5d
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Increased API Errors
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC
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**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC

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+ We're investgating errors in our API systems.
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**7. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-05-08 19:24 UTC

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+ We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
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**8. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-05-08 19:56 UTC

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+ 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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**9. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-05-08 20:16 UTC

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+ 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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**10. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-05-08 20:19 UTC

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+ 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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**11. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-05-08 21:08 UTC

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+ 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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**12. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-05-08 21:47 UTC

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+ Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
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**13. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC

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+ All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC | Major incident: Increased API Errors (this change) | outage |

All Discord changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/discord/changes.md)
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