Discord Extreme List incident

High volume of requests causing degraded performance and site outages

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Discord Extreme List experienced a critical incident on April 23, 2025 affecting Website and API and 1 more component, lasting 3h 53m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Apr 23, 2025, 08:42 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 23, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC
Duration
3h 53m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 23, 2025, 08:42 AM UTC

Affected components

WebsiteAPILoad Balancer

Update timeline

  1. investigating Apr 23, 2025, 08:42 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Apr 23, 2025, 08:57 AM UTC

    We suspect that DEL suffered a DDoS attack, performance has improved so we will be marking all components as degraded as we continue to investigate and monitor the situation.

  3. monitoring Apr 23, 2025, 09:33 AM UTC

    We have identified the issue, implemented a fix, and are monitoring the result. Website and load balancer are both fully operational, but API remains at degraded performance.

  4. monitoring Apr 23, 2025, 11:37 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. monitoring Apr 23, 2025, 11:37 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  6. monitoring Apr 23, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  7. resolved Apr 23, 2025, 12:36 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.