Discord incident: Connection Delays

Affected components

• Gateway

1. resolvedApr 28, 2026, 21:12 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringApr 28, 2026, 21:02 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

3. investigatingApr 28, 2026, 19:29 UTC

   We are investigating issues with large guilds being unavailable

4. investigatingApr 28, 2026, 19:20 UTC

   Users are experiencing delays connecting to the platform. We are investigating

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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• LaunchDarkly: Issues with Observability Alert NotificationMinor · Apr 28, 2026, 18:34 UTC
• ReadMe: Creating branches is resulting in 500 errorsMinor · Apr 28, 2026, 18:38 UTC
• Inngest: Increased function execution latencyMinor · Apr 28, 2026, 19:11 UTC
• npm: npm website degraded serviceMinor · Apr 28, 2026, 19:55 UTC

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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