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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-95463C42

Discord outage on May 8, 2026

Minor severityResolved45 minMessaging
Started · UTC
May 08, 07:08 PM
4d ago
Resolved · UTC
May 08, 07:53 PM
4d ago
Duration
45 min
End-to-end
Peak confidence
25.00
17 snapshots
// What happened

Discordstatus is reporting a problem affecting Guild and Session Availability. Isitreallydown?'s synthetic checks have not yet been measured, but DNS resolution is normal and user reports are quiet. Other news: Engadget and Folha Mercado reported on a global Discord outage that was recovering, which does not appear to be related to the current status.

Cached · Sat, May 09, 2026, 06:42 PM UTC · scope: service signals

// Timeline

  1. Status changed to Operational

    The stored readout moved to Operational with confidence 55.00.

  2. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Increased API Errors.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 45 min of observed impact.

  4. Peak confidence reached

    Confidence peaked at 65.00 while the service was marked Operational.

// Signals by source2 sources
  • Official status

    Discordstatus.Com reported an open incident — Increased API Errors · impact: major

    07:12 PM UTC
  • User reports

    1 reports in 15m, 2 in 60m — Crowd-sourced reports from Discord users · top complaint: "Messages not sending" (1).

    1/15m
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

25.00

The incident reached 25.00 peak confidence across 17 stored status snapshots.

User reports

1 / 15m

Report volume reached 1 in 15 minutes and 2 in 60 minutes during the incident window.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Fri, May 08, 2026, 07:53 PM UTC.

// User impact

Discord users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Messaging service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 45 min. User reports peaked at 2 reports in a 60-minute window.