Major incident

Discord: Increased API Errors

Current status of Discord: Operational — live Discord status

Timeline

1. May 8, 2026, 19:08 UTC
   investigating
   We're investgating errors in our API systems.
2. May 8, 2026, 19:24 UTC
   identified
   We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
3. May 8, 2026, 19:56 UTC
   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. May 8, 2026, 20:16 UTC
   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. May 8, 2026, 20:19 UTC
   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. May 8, 2026, 21:08 UTC
   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. May 8, 2026, 21:47 UTC
   identified
   Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
8. May 8, 2026, 22:38 UTC
   resolved
   All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.

Updates as published by Discord (original).