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Is Plex down, or is it just you? This page tracks Plex status against its official status page and shows any Plex outage as it happens: current incidents, outage history and reports from other users.
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Plex outage history
- Incidents, 90 days
- 18
- Last incident
- Oct 10, 2026
- Typical gap
- 2 days
- Most affected
- -
The last 20 incidents Plex published ran from Jul 14, 2026 to Oct 10, 2026, 18 of them in the 90 days to Oct 19, 2026. The most recent was "401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token" on Oct 10, 2026. Incidents came roughly every 2 days. The busiest month was July 2026, with 8. Plex's status page lists 68 components.
Plex outage reports
Reports submitted by people using Plex, over the last 24 hours.
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Service health - last 24 hours
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Component status
Plex lists 68 components on its official status page.
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- Authentication and API server (plex.tv)Checking
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Uptime statistics
- Last 7 days
- Last 30 days
- Last 90 days
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Recent incidents and outages
Incidents published on the provider's own status page, most recent first.
| Incident | Started | State |
|---|---|---|
| 401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token | Oct 10, 2026 | Resolved |
| my-plex pods resolved DB's DNS to old/blue DB instead of new/green one | Oct 8, 2026 | Resolved |
| No AVOD ads on iOS or tvOS | Oct 6, 2026 | Resolved |
| plex.direct name resolution | Oct 2, 2026 | Resolved |
| Outbound connection issue from our prod-us-east-1 kubernetes cluster | Oct 1, 2026 | Resolved |
| Watch-Together - Rooms creation failure | Sep 23, 2026 | Resolved |
| DNS Issues with plex.tv API | Sep 14, 2026 | Resolved |
| plex.direct name resolution issue | Sep 10, 2026 | Resolved |
| Intermittent issues with remote connectivity | Sep 8, 2026 | Resolved |
| Issues with Plex Relay service | Sep 4, 2026 | Resolved |
| Issues with plex.tv API | Sep 3, 2026 | Resolved |
| Playback issue on Samsung TV | Aug 20, 2026 | Resolved |
| plex.direct DNS service degredation | Jul 27, 2026 | Resolved |
| Pubsub service disruption | Jul 23, 2026 | Resolved |
| Media Metadata | Jul 22, 2026 | Resolved |
Source: status.plex.tv
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Frequently asked questions
Is Plex down right now?
The status at the top of this page is checked against Plex's official status page every few minutes. If Plex has an outage or degraded performance, it shows there along with the affected components.
When was the last Plex outage?
The most recent incident Plex published was "401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token" on Oct 10, 2026. It was one of 18 in the 90 days to Oct 19, 2026.
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