Discord reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 4, 2026, 18:49 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 27m.
Right now Discord is operational. Live Discord status →
This incident has been resolved.
We're seeing significant positive impact from our earlier fix; nearly all users should be recovered at this point. We are monitoring closely.
We have a fix in place are seeing recovery, although some users may still be seeing impact.
We are actively working toward system recovery and will post another update in 10 minutes.
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
We are currently investigating an issue that is impacting users' ability to send direct messages. Other functionality including interactions, shop, and SDK integrations are also affected.
Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Discord's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.
Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.
Discord reported 18 incidents in the last 90 days, 16 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 13m. See Discord's uptime and incident history