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Discord Outage History

Every past Discord outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 453 Discord outages since October 2019. The 58 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major April 18, 2026

April 2026: User Profile Errors

Detected Apr 18, 2026 10:37 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 18, 2026 11:54 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Discord experienced a major incident where some users were unable to update their user profiles. The issue affected profile modification functionality across the platform for 1.3 hours. Discord implemented a fix and confirmed resolution after monitoring the results.

Major April 16, 2026

April 2026: Issues with invites

Detected Apr 16, 2026 3:47 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 16, 2026 4:30 PM EDT · Duration 44 minutes

Discord experienced a major incident affecting invite functionality, with users unable to properly interact with server invites. The API component was impacted for 44 minutes while the engineering team identified the root cause and performed a rollback of recent changes. The issue was fully resolved after the rollback completed and recovery was confirmed.

Minor April 6, 2026

April 2026: Embeds not working

Detected Apr 6, 2026 9:48 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 6, 2026 10:54 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Discord experienced an issue with embeds not working properly, affecting their API functionality. The incident lasted 1.1 hours and was resolved after the team identified the problem and deployed a fix.

Minor March 31, 2026

March 2026: Captchas Not Showing

Detected Mar 31, 2026 1:11 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 31, 2026 1:41 AM EDT · Duration 29 minutes

Discord experienced an issue where captchas were not displaying properly for users. The problem affected user authentication and verification processes on the platform. The issue was resolved after 29 minutes with a fix implementation and monitoring period.

Major March 28, 2026

March 2026: General API errors

Detected Mar 28, 2026 5:23 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 28, 2026 5:47 PM EDT · Duration 24 minutes

Discord experienced general API errors that lasted 24 minutes, affecting the platform's API functionality. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented, with the service being monitored before full resolution was confirmed.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: Issues connecting to Discord

Detected Mar 25, 2026 3:21 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 6:41 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Discord experienced a major outage lasting 3.3 hours that prevented users from connecting to the service, with the API being the primary affected component. Users reported being unable to join voice calls (receiving "awaiting endpoint" errors), getting stuck on loading screens, losing audio in existing calls, and having difficulty accessing messaging features. The issue was identified and resolved through targeted fixes to restore voice traffic first, followed by full API recovery.

Minor March 25, 2026

March 2026: Elevated errors for streaming and messaging

Detected Mar 25, 2026 11:18 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 11:52 AM EDT · Duration 33 minutes

Discord experienced degraded performance affecting streaming and messaging features due to a networking issue that lasted 33 minutes. The incident impacted the API and push notifications, with users reporting voice chat failures including missing voice indicators and inability to communicate even after changing server regions or creating new voice channels. Discord's team worked with their cloud provider to identify and resolve the underlying networking problem.

Major March 19, 2026

March 2026: Failure to start new voice calls

Detected Mar 19, 2026 10:47 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 20, 2026 1:58 AM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Discord experienced a major voice calling outage lasting 3.2 hours where new voice calls failed to start and existing calls had severe audio issues. Users reported being stuck on "awaiting endpoint," inability to hear other participants despite successful call connections, frequent disconnections, and regional server problems affecting voice channels across Discord servers. The issue was resolved after engineers implemented a fix and monitored the results.

Major March 12, 2026

March 2026: Applications experiencing 503 errors

Detected Mar 12, 2026 4:50 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 12, 2026 5:08 PM EDT · Duration 18 minutes

Discord experienced a major service incident where bot applications were receiving 503 errors, preventing them from functioning properly. The issue affected bot traffic across the platform for 18 minutes. Discord resolved the 503 errors and restored normal bot functionality.

Major March 11, 2026

March 2026: Some servers unavailable

Detected Mar 11, 2026 7:07 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 7:35 PM EDT · Duration 28 minutes

Discord experienced a major outage where some servers became unavailable to users. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented within 28 minutes. The incident was fully resolved after monitoring confirmed the fix was successful.