Discord Incident

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Discord is experiencing a major incident with increased API errors, causing many users to be unable to start sessions or send messages. Recovery operations are ongoing, with systems gradually recovering.

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# Discord Status Source: [https://discordstatus.com/](https://discordstatus.com/) **Update**\-We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state May08,2026\-14:08PDT **Identified**\-We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state May08,2026\-13:19PDT **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\. May08,2026\-13:16PDT **Update**\-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\. May08,2026\-12:56PDT **Identified**\-We have identified the issue\. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time May08,2026\-12:24PDT **Investigating**\-We're investgating errors in our API systems\. May08,2026\-12:08PDT Push NotificationsOperational VoiceOperational AtlantaOperational BrazilOperational RotterdamOperational Hong KongOperational IndiaOperational JapanOperational RussiaOperational SingaporeOperational South AfricaOperational South KoreaOperational SydneyOperational US CentralOperational US EastOperational US SouthOperational US WestOperational CloudFlareOperational Tax Calculation ServiceOperational Creator PayoutsOperational Server Web PagesOperational Marketing SiteOperational Operational Degraded Performance Partial Outage Major Outage Maintenance ## Past Incidents May8,2026 Unresolved incident: Increased API Errors\. May7,2026 No incidents reported\. May6,2026 No incidents reported\. May5,2026 No incidents reported\. May4,2026 No incidents reported\. May3,2026 No incidents reported\. May2,2026 **Resolved**\-We've resolved the issue and messaging should be functional May2,10:29PDT **Investigating**\-We are currently investigating the issue May2,10:03PDT May1,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr30,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr29,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr28,2026 **Resolved**\-This incident has been resolved\. Apr28,14:12PDT **Monitoring**\-A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results\. Apr28,14:02PDT **Update**\-We are investigating issues with large guilds being unavailable Apr28,12:29PDT **Investigating**\-Users are experiencing delays connecting to the platform\. We are investigating Apr28,12:20PDT Apr27,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr26,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr25,2026 No incidents reported\. Apr24,2026 No incidents reported\.

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