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Plex outage history and status

Is Plex down right now?

No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
99.85%
uptime, 90 days
13
incidents, 90 days
1 h 04 min
median time to fix
Oct 20, 2026
last incident

Plex components

Plex outage history

Nov: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Nov Dec: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Dec Jan: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Jan Feb: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Feb Mar: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Mar Apr: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Apr May: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage May Jun: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Jun Jul: 11 incidents, 124 min of major outage 11 Jul Aug: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Aug Sep: 6 incidents, 196 min of major outage 6 Sep Oct: 6 incidents, 0 min of major outage 6 Oct
Plex incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage.
Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
Oct 20, 2026, 15:44 UTC Marketing site is down No impact 2 h 55 min
Oct 10, 2026, 02:07 UTC 401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token No impact 10 h 20 min
Oct 8, 2026, 10:58 UTC my-plex pods resolved DB's DNS to old/blue DB instead of new/green one No impact 3 h 29 min
Oct 6, 2026, 16:11 UTC No AVOD ads on iOS or tvOS No impact 16 h 01 min
Oct 2, 2026, 11:20 UTC plex.direct name resolution No impact 2 h 45 min
Oct 1, 2026, 21:25 UTC Outbound connection issue from our prod-us-east-1 kubernetes cluster No impact 52 min
Sep 23, 2026, 09:36 UTC Watch-Together - Rooms creation failure Major 17 min
Sep 14, 2026, 14:31 UTC DNS Issues with plex.tv API Critical 36 min
Sep 10, 2026, 14:13 UTC plex.direct name resolution issue Minor 1 h 04 min
Sep 8, 2026, 22:07 UTC Intermittent issues with remote connectivity Minor —
Sep 4, 2026, 22:17 UTC Issues with Plex Relay service Critical 2 h 23 min
Sep 3, 2026, 00:55 UTC Issues with plex.tv API Minor 41 min
Aug 20, 2026, 12:41 UTC Playback issue on Samsung TV Critical —
Jul 27, 2026, 14:38 UTC plex.direct DNS service degredation Minor 2 h 52 min
Jul 23, 2026, 18:55 UTC Pubsub service disruption Major —
Jul 22, 2026, 11:01 UTC Media Metadata Minor 14 h 54 min
Jul 22, 2026, 11:00 UTC Discover Together Minor 14 h 55 min
Jul 22, 2026, 11:00 UTC Program Guide Data for Live TV Minor 14 h 55 min
Jul 22, 2026, 10:59 UTC Movies & Shows free streaming Minor 14 h 55 min
Jul 14, 2026, 15:42 UTC Program Guide Data for Live TV Minor 2 h 02 min
Jul 14, 2026, 15:39 UTC Movies & Shows free streaming Minor 2 h 05 min
Jul 14, 2026, 15:37 UTC Discover Together Minor 2 h 08 min
Jul 14, 2026, 15:36 UTC Issues with plex.tv API Minor 2 h 10 min
Jul 3, 2026, 09:40 UTC Issues with music matching Major 2 h 04 min
Jun 9, 2026, 20:39 UTC Issues with plex.direct name servers Minor 2 h 36 min

25 incidents in our archive since June 9, 2026.

When and where Plex fails

By weekday

Most incidents start on Tue.

  • Mon2
  • Tue8
  • Wed5
  • Thu6
  • Fri3
  • Sat1
  • Sun0

When Plex went down with others

Other social & media services

FAQ

Is Plex down right now?
At our last check Plex's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does Plex go down?
Plex reported 13 incidents in the last 90 days (4 major or critical), with 196 minutes of major outage: 99.85% uptime.
When was the last Plex outage?
The latest reported incident started on Oct 20, 2026, 15:44 UTC: "Marketing site is down", resolved after 2 h 55 min.
How long do Plex outages last?
Half of Plex's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 1 h 04 min.

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