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Increased API Errors

Partial outage Lasted 3h 30m · started · Discord's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Down Index
30of 100

What to do

  • Check whether your product depends on Discord. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 3h 30m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC and 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Discord 8

  1. investigating

    We're investgating errors in our API systems.

    provider

  2. identified

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

    provider

  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.

    provider

  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.

    provider

  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

    provider

  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

    provider

  7. identified

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

    provider

  8. resolved

    All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.

    provider

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-28860f4fe8

Is Discord still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC. For Discord's live state, see https://down.guide/discord.

How long did it last?

3h 30m, from 2026-05-08 19:08 UTC to 2026-05-08 22:38 UTC, by the times Discord posted.

What caused it?

Discord hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Discord's official status page, https://discordstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.