Resolved · lasted 37 h

Plex outage on September 2

Reports for Plex jumped to 2,224 an hour and stayed high for 37 h.

Started
12:00 AM
September 2, 2026 · UTC
Back to normal
1:00 PM
37 h later
Peak
2,224/hr
1112× normal
Plex’s incident
41 min
Issues with plex.tv API

Reports during the outage

10:00 PM2:50 PM UTC

What Plex said

status.plex.tv
Resolved12:55 – 1:36 AM · 41 min

Issues with plex.tv API

  1. Resolved · 1:36 AM

    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!

  2. Monitoring · 12:55 AM

    A fix has been implemented we are monitoring that traffic properly comes back to normal

  3. Identified · 12:51 AM

    We've identified the cause of the API Service incident, we are working on a fix

  4. Investigating · 11:42 PM

    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.

Plex posted its first update 23 h 42 min after reports started rising.

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