Is Discord down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached discord.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 14d 9h.
Checking discord.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About Discord outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Discord hosts real-time voice, video, and text communication for millions of communities - gaming groups, open-source projects, and increasingly professional teams - so an outage tends to be immediately and loudly visible: voice channels drop, messages stop sending, and entire communities lose their primary coordination channel at once. Discord's infrastructure separates concerns like messaging, voice/video, and the CDN serving media and emoji, so it's common for one to degrade (voice connections dropping, say) while text chat keeps working normally. A quick check of discord.com's own reachability helps confirm whether what you're seeing is a broader incident or specific to your own connection or a particular server.
Common causes of Discord downtime
Voice/video infrastructure incidents that drop or degrade calls while text messaging continues to work normally
Gateway/connection issues that cause the app to show as "connecting" indefinitely without fully failing
CDN incidents affecting image, emoji, and attachment loading while core messaging still functions
Regional network issues making discord.com unreachable from specific ISPs or countries
Not sure whether it's Discord or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests discord.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Discord being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
Discord's text messaging and voice/video calling run on separate infrastructure layers, so it's a well-known pattern for one to have an incident while the other works fine - you can often browse and send text messages normally while voice channels fail to connect or repeatedly drop. If this is happening across multiple servers for you (not just one), it's more likely a broader Discord voice-infrastructure incident than a problem with any single server's configuration.
The clearest way to tell is whether the problem is specific to one server (channel) or happens across every server you're in. If messaging or voice fails in every Discord server you try, that points to a broader platform-side issue rather than something wrong with one community's specific configuration or permissions. Checking discord.com's own reachability from multiple network locations, independent of any specific server, is the most direct way to confirm whether it's a real platform-wide incident.
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