Descript incident
Issues with connecting to Rooms/SquadCast sessions
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 17, 2026, 03:53 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem that prevents some users from connecting to Rooms sessions. We have traced this back to a current Cloudflare outage, and will update as soon as possible. Affected components Rooms (Degraded performance)
- identified Apr 17, 2026, 05:37 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have detected a problem that prevents some users from connecting to Rooms and SquadCast sessions. We have traced this back to a current Cloudflare outage, and will update as soon as possible. Affected components Squadcast (Degraded performance) Rooms (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Apr 17, 2026, 08:11 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring Functionality is restored and we are monitoring to ensure that all Rooms and SquadCast connection issues resolve. Affected components Squadcast (Operational) Rooms (Operational)
- resolved Apr 17, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC
Status: Resolved This issue is now resolved. Affected components Squadcast (Operational) Rooms (Operational)
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