Outage in Plex

Issues with plex.tv API

Resolved Minor

May 24, 2026 - Started 23 days ago - Lasted about 4 hours

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Plex experienced API service issues that affected user authentication (sign-in and PIN verification), account creation, and access to Downloads page items, with users experiencing slow responses or service failures. The incident lasted 4 hours and was resolved by deploying a performance fix. The service is now more responsive and stable, with ongoing monitoring to ensure the issues are fully resolved.

We're investigating issues impacting API services for some users. This can affect account auth (sign-in & PIN verification) and creation, access to Downloads page items, and more. You may experience slow responses or failures.

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

MONITORING 23 days ago - at 05/25/2026 06:19AM

We are deploying a fix to improve the performance.

Everything is now more responsive and more stable.

We are keeping an eye on the metrics to make sure everything is solved

IDENTIFIED 23 days ago - at 05/25/2026 05:01AM

INVESTIGATING 23 days ago - at 05/25/2026 03:59AM

Latest Plex outages

Issues with plex.direct name servers - 8 days ago

Issues with forums.plex.tv - about 2 months ago

Issues with plex.tv API - about 2 months ago

Issues with plex.tv API - 2 months ago

Plex DNS issues - 2 months ago

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.

Start free trial

No credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available

Integrations with Slack Microsoft Teams Google Chat Datadog PagerDuty Zapier Discord Webhook