Discord experienced a major incident on February 28, 2026 affecting Gateway, lasting 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Gateway
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 28, 2026, 09:54 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue. Restarting your sessions *should* fix it but existing sessions may have not be seeing new DMs
- identified Feb 28, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue. Restarting your sessions *should* fix it but existing sessions may have not be seeing new DMs
- identified Feb 28, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC
This is actually a continuation of the incident from earlier today, which we marked "resolved" in error. We have now identified and are remediating the issue
- monitoring Feb 28, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Feb 28, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.