Discord outage: Increased API Errors

1. resolvedMay 8, 2026, 22:38 UTC

   All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.

2. identifiedMay 8, 2026, 21:47 UTC

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

3. identifiedMay 8, 2026, 21:08 UTC

   We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state

4. identifiedMay 8, 2026, 20:19 UTC

   We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state

5. monitoringMay 8, 2026, 20:16 UTC

   We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.

6. identifiedMay 8, 2026, 19:56 UTC

   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.

7. identifiedMay 8, 2026, 19:24 UTC

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

8. investigatingMay 8, 2026, 19:08 UTC

   We're investgating errors in our API systems.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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.

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How often does Discord have incidents?

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