Plex Outage History

Plex had 7 outages in the last 2 years — averaging 0.3 incidents per month.

There were 7 Plex outages since February 7, 2026. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.plex.tv

Minor June 9, 2026

Issues with plex.direct name servers

Detected by Pingoru: Jun 09, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC
Resolved: Jun 09, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: plex.direct DNS servers

Timeline · 3 updates

investigating Jun 09, 2026, 08:39 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're investigating issues impacting our plex.direct name servers for some users. You may experience slow responses or failures. Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Degraded performance)
monitoring Jun 09, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring We are noticing an improvement in response time. We will continue to monitor closely. Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Degraded performance)
resolved Jun 09, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC

Status: Resolved The service issue has been resolved and you should see things returning to normal now. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we worked on the issue! Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Operational)

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Minor May 25, 2026

Issues with plex.tv API

Detected by Pingoru: May 25, 2026, 07:59 AM UTC
Resolved: May 25, 2026, 07:59 AM UTC
Duration: —

Timeline · 4 updates

investigating May 25, 2026, 03:59 AM UTC

Status: Investigating 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. Affected components Authentication and API server (plex.tv) (Degraded performance)
identified May 25, 2026, 05:01 AM UTC

Status: Identified 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. Affected components Authentication and API server (plex.tv) (Degraded performance)
monitoring May 25, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC

Status: Monitoring 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 Affected components Authentication and API server (plex.tv) (Degraded performance)
resolved May 25, 2026, 07:59 AM UTC

Status: Resolved The incident is resolved now. Response time are back to normal and the application is stable. Affected components Authentication and API server (plex.tv) (Operational)

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Minor April 28, 2026

Issues with forums.plex.tv

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 28, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC
Resolved: Apr 28, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC
Duration: —

Timeline · 2 updates

identified Apr 28, 2026, 09:25 AM UTC

Status: Identified A third party provider hosting our forum is experiencing issues, making forums.plex.tv "forums.plex.tv": http://forums.plex.tv unreachable. Affected components Forums (Discourse) (Degraded performance)
resolved Apr 28, 2026, 09:49 AM UTC

Status: Resolved Upstream incident is now resolved Affected components Forums (Discourse) (Operational)

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Minor April 8, 2026

Plex DNS issues

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 08, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 08, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: plex.direct DNS servers

Timeline · 3 updates

investigating Apr 08, 2026, 08:34 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're investigating issues with our backend plex.direct DNS servers. You may experience issues during this time. Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Degraded performance)
monitoring Apr 08, 2026, 09:41 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring We have deployed a fix and are monitoring the results. Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Operational)
resolved Apr 08, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

Status: Resolved The service issue has been resolved and you should see things returning to normal now. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we worked on the issue! Affected components plex.direct DNS servers (Operational)

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Minor March 9, 2026

Issues with services in EU

Detected by Pingoru: Mar 09, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC
Resolved: Mar 09, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: Live TV and TV Program Guide Data - Europemetadata.provider.plex.tv - EuropeAVOD - EuropeDiscover Together - Europe

Timeline · 3 updates

investigating Mar 09, 2026, 06:47 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We are currently investigating an issue with slow/dropped responses in the EU region. Affected components Discover Together - Europe (Degraded performance) Live TV and TV Program Guide Data - Europe (Degraded performance) metadata.provider.plex.tv - Europe (Degraded performance) AVOD - Europe (Degraded performance)
monitoring Mar 09, 2026, 07:59 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Affected components AVOD - Europe (Degraded performance) Discover Together - Europe (Degraded performance) Live TV and TV Program Guide Data - Europe (Degraded performance) metadata.provider.plex.tv - Europe (Degraded performance)
resolved Mar 09, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components AVOD - Europe (Operational) Discover Together - Europe (Operational) Live TV and TV Program Guide Data - Europe (Operational) metadata.provider.plex.tv - Europe (Operational)

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Minor February 10, 2026

Community API experiencing issues

Detected by Pingoru: Feb 10, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC
Resolved: Feb 10, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: Discover Together - EuropeDiscover Together - US

Timeline · 4 updates

investigating Feb 10, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We are currently investigating this issue. Affected components Discover Together - US (Full outage) Discover Together - Europe (Full outage)
identified Feb 10, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC

Status: Identified The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Affected components Discover Together - US (Partial outage) Discover Together - Europe (Full outage)
monitoring Feb 10, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Affected components Discover Together - US (Operational) Discover Together - Europe (Operational)
resolved Feb 10, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC

Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components Discover Together - US (Operational) Discover Together - Europe (Operational)

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Minor February 7, 2026

Discover Together

Detected by Pingoru: Feb 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Resolved: Feb 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Duration: —

Timeline · 1 update

resolved Feb 07, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC

Status: Resolved We're currently investigating issues affecting Discover Together. You may experience trouble accessing your Profile, Activity Feed, People, and Discover/Where to Watch features. This does not impact access to personal media.

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