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Discord: Increased API Errors

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (3.5 h)8 updatesSource: stspg.io (opens in new tab)
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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Timeline of updates

  1. investigating

    We're investgating errors in our API systems.

  2. identified

    We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time

  3. identified

    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.

  4. monitoring

    We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.

  5. identified

    We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state

  6. identified

    We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state

  7. identified

    Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features

  8. resolved

    All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.

Rewindex changes for this incident

Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab). Discord profile · Recent Discord incidents · Markdown · JSON