Descript Partial Outage - July 8, 2026

Provider incident title: “Error when trying to initiate recording”

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Started

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

07:07 PM UTC

Duration

52m

total

Resolved

08:00 PM UTC

Jul 8, 2026

Severity: Partial Outage|Affected: Descript|Duration: 52m

Incident Timeline

08:00 PM UTC—Resolved

Status: Monitoring Functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the system continues to be operational. Affected components Recorder (Degraded performance)

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This incident was sourced from Descript's official status RSS feed. Tickerr polls RSS feeds every 10 minutes and merges updates from the same outage into a single incident timeline.

This incident lasted 52m.

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