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    50 recorded Plex incidents since January 2015, with official updates, affected components, duration and resolution information.

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    Marketing site is down

    Started October 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM UTC · 2h 55m

    Pending
    1. October 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we're monitoring the results. Some users may still see issues while things recover.

    3. October 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and affected services are operating normally again.

    401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token

    Started October 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM UTC · 10h 20m

    Pending
    1. October 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and affected services are operating normally again.

    my-plex pods resolved DB's DNS to old/blue DB instead of new/green one

    Started October 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM UTC · 3h 29m

    Pending
    1. October 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTCresolved

      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!

    No AVOD ads on iOS or tvOS

    Started October 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC · 16h 1m

    Pending
    1. October 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and affected services are operating normally again.

    plex.direct name resolution

    Started October 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM UTC · 2h 45m

    Pending
    1. October 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 2, 2026 at 12:24 PM UTCmonitoring

      We have identified the problem and are deploying a fix

    3. October 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and affected services are operating normally again.

    Outbound connection issue from our prod-us-east-1 kubernetes cluster

    Started October 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM UTC · 52m

    Pending
    1. October 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. October 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTCresolved

      We have applied a fix and are monitoring the status of our applications

    Watch-Together - Room Creation returned 404

    Started September 23, 2026 at 9:36 AM UTC · Ongoing

    OutageMajor incident
    1. September 23, 2026 at 9:41 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    Watch-Together - Rooms creation failure

    Started September 23, 2026 at 9:36 AM UTC · 17m

    OutageMajor incident
    1. September 23, 2026 at 9:36 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue affecting some Plex services, and will share an update as soon as we know more.

    2. September 23, 2026 at 9:36 AM UTCinvestigating

      We identified an issue affecting new rooms creation on watch-together

    3. September 23, 2026 at 9:41 AM UTCinvestigating

      The root cause has been identifier and a fix is currently deploying

    4. September 23, 2026 at 9:53 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and affected services are operating normally again.

    DNS Issues with plex.tv API

    Started September 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM UTC · 36m

    OutageCritical incident
    1. September 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating issues impacting API services. 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.

    2. September 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM UTCidentified

      We have identified the issue and are deploying a fix.

    3. September 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM UTCmonitoring

      DNS has been restored but some users may experience issues while records propagate across the globe. We are monitoring this propagation.

    4. September 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM UTCresolved

      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!

    plex.direct name resolution issue

    Started September 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM UTC · 1h 4m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. September 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are investigating an issue impacting plex.direct name resolution.

    2. September 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTCmonitoring

      Name resolution is back to normal. We are keeping an eye on the platform and our metrics

    3. September 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM UTCresolved

      Everything is back to normal

    Intermittent issues with remote connectivity

    Started September 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM UTC · 0m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. September 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTCidentified

      We had various reports of remote connectivity tests failing intermittently for some users.

    2. September 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTCinvestigating

      We investigated various areas of the remote connectivity infrastructure and discovered a bug preventing the correct IP address being returned for some requests.

    3. September 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTCresolved

      We pushed out a fix and received confirmation that the issue was resolved.

    Issues with Plex Relay service

    Started September 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTC · 2h 23m

    OutageCritical incident
    1. September 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue with our relay service. You may experience issues with indirect playback during this time.

    2. September 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTCidentified

      We have identified the issue and are deploying a fix.

    3. September 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring the results.

    4. September 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM UTCresolved

      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!

    Issues with plex.tv API

    Started September 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM UTC · 41m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. September 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM UTCinvestigating

      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.

    2. September 3, 2026 at 1:12 AM UTCidentified

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

    3. September 3, 2026 at 1:17 AM UTCmonitoring

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

    4. September 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM UTCresolved

      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!

    Playback issue on Samsung TV

    Started August 20, 2026 at 11:41 AM UTC · 0m

    OutageCritical incident
    1. August 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM UTCmonitoring

      Playback of Plex Media Server content on Samsung TVs failed after the last version deployment

    2. August 20, 2026 at 12:44 PM UTCresolved

      We rollbacked to the previous version, playback is working fine now

    plex.direct DNS service degredation

    Started July 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM UTC · 2h 52m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. July 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM UTCidentified

      We're currently investigating issues affecting our plex.direct DNS resolvers. You may experience some timeouts while we work to resolve the issue.

    2. July 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM UTCmonitoring

      The service is stabilizing and we're monitoring the results.

    3. July 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM UTCresolved

      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!

    Pubsub service disruption

    Started July 23, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC · 0m

    OutageMajor incident
    1. July 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTCidentified

      We have identified an issue with Pubsub and are investigating

    2. July 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTCresolved

      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!

    Media Metadata

    Started July 22, 2026 at 11:01 AM UTC · 14h 54m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. July 22, 2026 at 11:01 AM UTCinvestigating

      We’re investigating issues affecting media metadata. You may experience slow responses or failures retrieving posters, summaries, cast, subtitles, and more during this time.

    2. July 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM UTCmonitoring

      We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the results.

    3. July 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM UTCresolved

      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!

    Discover Together

    Started July 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC · 14h 55m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. July 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTCinvestigating

      We’re currently investigating issues affecting Discover Together. You may experience trouble accessing your Profile, Activity Feed, People, and Discover/Where to Watch features.

    2. July 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM UTCmonitoring

      We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the results.

    3. July 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM UTCresolved

      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!

    Program Guide Data for Live TV

    Started July 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC · 14h 55m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. July 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTCinvestigating

      We’re investigating issues affecting program guide data for our Live TV features. You may experience slow responses or failures to load or refresh program guide data during this time.

    2. July 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM UTCmonitoring

      We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the results.

    3. July 23, 2026 at 1:55 AM UTCresolved

      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!

    Movies & Shows free streaming

    Started July 22, 2026 at 10:59 AM UTC · 14h 55m

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. July 22, 2026 at 10:59 AM UTCinvestigating

      We’re currently investigating issues affecting our free Movies & Shows streaming. You may experience slow responses or failures accessing this free streaming during this time.

    2. July 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM UTCmonitoring

      We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the results.

    3. July 23, 2026 at 1:54 AM UTCresolved

      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!