Discord experienced a major incident on May 8, 2026, lasting 3h 29m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating May 08, 2026, 07:08 PM UTC
We're investgating errors in our API systems.
- identified May 08, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC
We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
- identified May 08, 2026, 07:56 PM UTC
We are continuing to work to remediate the issues impacting availability for some Discord users. This is causing impact across our service, including logging in and sending messages.
- monitoring May 08, 2026, 08:16 PM UTC
We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.
- identified May 08, 2026, 08:19 PM UTC
We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
- identified May 08, 2026, 09:08 PM UTC
We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
- identified May 08, 2026, 09:47 PM UTC
Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
- resolved May 08, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC
All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.