# Discord: Increased API Errors

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC · Duration: 3.5 h
- Updates: 8
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/yj8w3fd3p7jn](https://stspg.io/yj8w3fd3p7jn)
- [Company: Discord](https://rewindex.com/company/discord.md)

## 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)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC: We're investgating errors in our API systems.
- **identified** 2026-05-08 19:24 UTC: We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
- **identified** 2026-05-08 19:56 UTC: 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-05-08 20:16 UTC: We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.
- **identified** 2026-05-08 20:19 UTC: We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
- **identified** 2026-05-08 21:08 UTC: We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
- **identified** 2026-05-08 21:47 UTC: Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
- **resolved** 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC: All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC: [Major incident: Increased API Errors](https://rewindex.com/change/i41990c43d1d27b.md)


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