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Down now20This week248

20 down now · 248 this week

Descript outage history and postmortems

AI · San Francisco, US · 14 incidents in 90 days · 99.61% implied uptime · last 6d ago

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No open incidents· checked 1h 49m agoLast resolved 6d 17h ago: Avatar Outage, lasted 5h 37m

History

CriticalUnverifiedNov 2, 18:27 UTC
Avatar Outagelasted 5h 37mPostmortem
MinorOct 29, 17:07 UTC
Increased latency for agent API jobslasted 33h 17m
MajorOct 23, 21:30 UTC
Generate Layout is downlasted 2h 20m
MajorSep 29, 18:12 UTC
Transcription jobs failinglasted 54m
MinorSep 15, 15:17 UTC
Issues with Project Synclasted 3h 1m
CriticalSep 14, 13:09 UTC
Rooms Recording Outagelasted 36m
MinorSep 10, 23:15 UTC
Underlordlasted 16h 7m
MinorSep 10, 21:18 UTC
Backend Workflow Outagelasted 2h 36m
MinorSep 4, 22:51 UTC
Video playback freezing when exporting or publishinglasted 47m
MajorSep 4, 13:53 UTC
Some Transcription requests are failinglasted 3h 7m
CriticalSep 4, 01:31 UTC
Avatar generation is unavailablelasted 3h 46m
MajorAug 24, 16:45 UTC
Share Page Outagelasted 30m
MinorAug 18, 18:45 UTC
Help Center temporarily downlasted 44m
MinorAug 14, 20:01 UTC
Audition + AAF Timeline export unavailablelasted 1h 17m
CriticalAug 5, 19:29 UTC
Rooms Outagelasted 28m
MajorJul 27, 16:37 UTC
Issue with uploads to media librarylasted 17m
CriticalJul 23, 00:20 UTC
Video Regenerate failing for some userslasted 2h 27m
MinorJul 22, 13:01 UTC
Video files appear frozen or low FPS after importlasted 8h 45m
MajorJul 21, 19:01 UTC
SquadCast recordings intermittently failinglasted 40m
MinorJul 21, 16:37 UTC
Issues with Media Playbacklasted 5h 26m
CriticalJul 14, 10:15 UTC
Playback Failureslasted 3h
CriticalJul 10, 18:00 UTC
Unplanned Underlord Outagelasted 44m
MinorJul 8, 18:50 UTC
Error when trying to initiate recordinglasted 49m
MinorJun 18, 20:35 UTC
Projects reverting to earlier revisions after reopeninglasted 1h 17m
CriticalJun 18, 20:28 UTC
Unable to start join sessionslasted 32m
About Descript

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

AI median
8h 30m

Descript: 8h 30m weighted downtime in range, category median 49m.

14 incidents, 7 major or critical, 3d 1h of incident time (16h 49m major or critical, 2d 9h partial), longest 33h 17m, implied uptime 99.61%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

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Questions

Is Descript down right now?

Check Descript's own status page at https://status.descript.com for the live state. This page shows Descript's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-11-02: "Avatar Outage".

How often does Descript have outages?

Descript posted 14 incidents in the last 90 days and 25 in the last year, 7 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 2h 28m.

When was Descript's last major outage?

2026-11-02: "Avatar Outage", lasting 5h 37m.

What usually causes Descript incidents?

Descript's status updates in this period do not name a root cause.