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Descript is currently down - official outage reported - 817ms HTTP response. Last checked . 90-day uptime: 99.9%.
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90-day uptime
99.9%
16 incidents (90d)
Response now
817ms
HTTP p50 (7d)
1001ms
median ping response
HTTP p95 (7d)
2401ms
tail ping response
Response time (7 days)
p50 1001ms·p95 2401msⓘ HTTP response times from Tickerr's monitoring server to Descript's status or homepage endpoint - not API inference latency or time-to-first-token (TTFT). For API benchmark data, see third-party sources like Artificial Analysis.
90-day uptime
Incident history
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with our transcription pipeline, and we are currently investigating. Currently, transcription jobs may be stuck or failing. Affected components Transcr…
Status: Identified A recent change to our sync engine has made it possible for edits to be reverted, which can cause inadvertent loss of work(often visible as "merge error" messages in the Version His…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Rooms (Full outage)
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem with some of our backend workflows like transcription and we are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Transcription (Degraded perfor…
Status: Monitoring We identified an issue causing video playback to freeze when exporting or publishing. Functionality is fully restored at this point, and we are monitoring to ensure the system conti…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. Affected components Transcription (Partial outage)
Status: Investigating Avatar generations are currently failing due to a 3rd party outage. We're currently awaiting an update from them. Affected components Avatars (Full outage)
Status: Resolved This issue is now resolved. Affected components Descript web links (Operational)
Status: Investigating We have reports that the help center is unavailable for some users. We are currently in the process of updating our support infrastructure. If this happens to you, please refresh…
Status: Investigating Audition + AAF Timeline export is currently down. We will update as soon as functionality is restored. Affected components Export (Degraded performance)
Status: Monitoring Functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the system continues to be operational. Affected components Rooms (Full outage)
Status: Resolved This issue is now resolved. Affected components Import (Operational)
Status: Investigating We have detected an issue with Video Regenerate and are working to restore functionality. We will update here as soon as we have more information. Affected components Image gener…
Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. As a workaround, many users have found success by using Replace File(https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/art…
Status: Investigating The team has detected an issue with playback (freezing, stuttering, poor performance, artifacts, and related symptoms). We are currently investigating. Affected components Media …
Status: Monitoring We are aware of an issue in Descript that caused playback failures from around 6:15am Eastern. At this time, functionality is fully restored and we are monitoring to ensure the syst…
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About Descript status
Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editing tool that includes transcription, overdub, and AI editing features. When Descript is down, project editing and AI processing are unavailable. Descript uses AWS infrastructure.
You can also check the official Descript status page.