Discord is a renowned VolP application and digital distribution platform developed for the video gaming community – that is used to share text, image, videos, and audio in a chat channel. Discord is available on all major platforms like Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and web browsers.
Well, currently, the service is down. If you are trying to use the app and it is not working for you or throwing login problems, then find solace in the fact that you are not alone; many others are facing the same problem. Problems at discord :
A quick glimpse at the Twitter conveys that several others are affected by the same issue. Check out some of the complaints of the netizens :
Down detector – a renowned service that gives details about live outages – also conveys that Discord is indeed going through a glitch in some regions, as can be seen in the images below.
Discord Outage Time :
Discord is having issues since 1:05 PM EST.
Any official word on the matter? No, not yet. We’re not able to obtain a word from the official service channels or their social media handles. Rest assured, we’re keeping a close eye on all related developments, and will update the story with relevant info as and when we come across any. So in case, you’re encountering the issues discussed here, stay tuned for updates.
UPDATE: 1
Discord team is aware of the issues with its servers and their team is working to fix it. check out the official tweet below;
Our team's on it!
— Discord (@discord) December 7, 2019
Discord API Errors / Latency :
Identified – Multiple engineers are online, investigating the issue. We are noticing anomalously high iowait across most of our database clusters all other instances leading us to believe that this is a google cloud issue. We are working on a mitigation, however latency is expected to be high as we are currently starved for IO resources.
Dec 7, 10:37 PSTInvestigating – We’re experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
Dec 7, 10:22 PST
UPDATE 2 :
Update – Google is currently investigating an issue with SSD Persistent Disk in our region (what our database clusters store their data on). We are awaiting their resolution.
Given the IO starvation, we are expecting continued API latency – as most if not all of our datastores are currently degraded. We will post updates as we get them.
Dec 7, 10:54 PST
Sorry about this! Google is having some issues on their end that are impacting us, but they're working on getting it resolved ASAP!
— Discord (@discord) December 7, 2019
Google has released an official update about the API issues :
Google Compute Engine Incident #19012
Incident began at 2019-12-07 10:46 (all times are US/Pacific).
DATE TIME DESCRIPTION Dec 07, 2019 13:53 The issue with SSD Persistent Disk has been resolved for all affected volumes as of Saturday, 2019-12-07 13:51 US/Pacific. We thank you for your patience while we’ve worked on resolving the issue.
Dec 07, 2019 13:03 Description: Mitigation work is still underway by our engineering team. Current data indicates that approximately 0.01% of PD-SSD volumes in us-east1-b are affected by this issue, from a peak of approximately 8.45%.
At this time, the issue is contained, and we can confirm that this is only impacting us-east1-b.
We will provide more information by Saturday, 2019-12-07 14:02 US/Pacific.
Diagnosis: High IO wait times, failed IO operations, or IO Operations taking over 2 seconds to complete
Workaround: None at this time
Dec 07, 2019 11:55 Description: Mitigation work is currently underway by our engineering team. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point.
We will provide more information by Saturday, 2019-12-07 12:42 US/Pacific.
Diagnosis: Seeing High IO wait times, failed IO operations, or IO Operations taking over 2 seconds to complete
Workaround: None at this time
Dec 07, 2019 11:30 Description: We are experiencing an issue with SSD Persistent Disk and SSD Regional Persistent Disks,beginning at Saturday, 2019-12-07 06:45 US/Pacific. Symptoms: High IO wait times, IO operations failing or taking over 2 seconds to complete.
Self-diagnosis: Seeing High IO wait times, failed IO operations, or IO Operations taking over 2 seconds to complete
Workaround: N/A
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Saturday, 2019-12-07 12:00 US/Pacific with current details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
Diagnosis: Seeing High IO wait times, failed IO operations, or IO Operations taking over 2 seconds to complete
Workaround: None at this time
More Details: Google
The issue with SSD Persistent Disk has been resolved for all affected volumes as of Saturday, 2019-12-07 13:51 US/Pacific.
Update 3 – December 12
Discord servers are down again for many users. Have a look at the current status of Discord.
@discordapp Having alot of issues connecting to discord today. Are the servers down or something?
— Chris Welle-Knox (@YaBoiChris19) December 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/ricawcaw/status/1205267991379755008
Update 3 – December 15
Discord is currently down for many users. Have a look at few comments down below.
https://twitter.com/_VivSedov_/status/1206275962280841216
@discordapp App having trouble connecting on a
Android. Server issues?— Thomas Seeberg (@LimpinBiscuit) December 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/johncenaRBLX/status/1206275948410073088
