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Is Plex Down?

No — Plex is up
Plex's status page
Operational · no open incidents
FlareWarden checks
Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 1711 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

Plex's status page

status.plex.tv · read · checked every 3 minutes

Operational
Plex's components, as its status page reports them
ComponentStatus
Authentication and API server (plex.tv)Operational
Plex website (www.plex.tv)Operational
Hosted web app (app.plex.tv)Operational
Chromecast appOperational
Authentication/Login pageOperational
Smart TV appOperational
Devices Messaging Services (PubSub)Operational
meta.plex.tvOperational
mp.plex.tv / ump.plex.tv / mpm.plex.tvOperational
Music metadata searchOperational
Subtitles searchOperational
plex.direct DNS serversOperational
7 more, all operational · show all 19
All of Plex's components
ComponentStatus
Authentication and API server (plex.tv)Operational
Plex website (www.plex.tv)Operational
Hosted web app (app.plex.tv)Operational
Chromecast appOperational
Authentication/Login pageOperational
Smart TV appOperational
Devices Messaging Services (PubSub)Operational
meta.plex.tvOperational
mp.plex.tv / ump.plex.tv / mpm.plex.tvOperational
Music metadata searchOperational
Subtitles searchOperational
plex.direct DNS serversOperational
Relay serviceOperational
Remote connectivity testsOperational
Blog comments (Disqus)Operational
Content Delivery Network (Cloudflare)Operational
Forums (Discourse)Operational
Payment Processor (Braintree)Operational
Account-related emails delivery (Sendgrid)Operational
6 locations All operational

FlareWarden checks

plex.tv from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable
Regions up
8 of 8
Response
1711 ms
Checked

By region

  • Amsterdam reachable, 4319 ms
  • Dallas reachable, 741 ms
  • Frankfurt reachable, 1514 ms
  • Newark reachable, 850 ms
  • Paris reachable, 1650 ms
  • Stockholm reachable, 775 ms
  • Sydney reachable, 1821 ms
  • Toronto reachable, 2023 ms
Timing by region
Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
RegionDNSTCPTLSTTFB
Amsterdam23 ms3 ms17 ms3219 ms
Dallas48 ms1 ms16 ms234 ms
Frankfurt30 ms2 ms12 ms462 ms
Newark30 ms3 ms13 ms245 ms
Paris15 ms2 ms13 ms890 ms
Stockholm23 ms1 ms8 ms331 ms
Sydney8 ms1 ms8 ms138 ms
Toronto17 ms1 ms13 ms462 ms
We check that plex.tv loads, not every feature behind it. Test it yourself

History

Incidents Plex reported

Since Oct 22, 15 days · from status.plex.tv

Incidents
0
Major or critical
0
Median to resolve
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No incidents reported in this window.

Plex website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · plex.tv

Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
100%
Avg response, 30 days
1256ms

Last 30 days

91-day clean streak
Oct 7: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 8: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 11: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 12: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 15: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 16: 100.00% uptime, 30 checks
Oct 17: 100.00% uptime, 29 checks
Oct 18: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 19: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 20: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 21: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 22: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 23: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 24: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 25: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 26: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 27: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 29: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 30: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 31: 100.00% uptime, 31 checks
Nov 1: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 2: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 3: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 4: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Nov 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 7 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of plex.tv from multiple regions every 6 hours. Plex's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 90 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Plex does

Plex organises a personal media library and streams it to phones, TVs and browsers, alongside free ad-supported channels and live TV. The media usually sits on hardware in your own home, but discovery, sign-in and remote access route through Plex's servers, so an outage can lock you out of files you physically own.

What an outage looks like

Clients fail to sign in and show an empty server list, even though the server on your network is running. Remote streaming stops while playback on the same local network continues. Artwork, titles and descriptions vanish and are replaced by filenames, because metadata is fetched from Plex. Watch Together and mobile notifications stop working.

What to do about it

Check status.plex.tv, which lists the authentication and API server, the hosted web app, remote access, media metadata and live TV guide data as separate components. If sign-in is the problem, clients already signed in keep working, so avoid signing out. Local playback usually continues via a direct connection to your server on the same network.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Plex is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Plex outage FAQ

Why can I not reach my own Plex server during an outage?
Plex clients authenticate against plex.tv before showing your libraries, and remote connections are brokered through Plex's servers. So even though the media and the server hardware are yours and running, the discovery and sign-in path is not. On the same local network a direct connection often still works, which is the practical workaround.
Is my media library at risk during a Plex outage?
No. Your files live on your own storage and are untouched by anything happening at Plex. What an incident affects is reaching them: sign-in, remote access and the metadata that makes the library browsable. Once the service recovers, the library returns exactly as it was, with no restoration needed on your part.
Why are my posters and titles missing?
Media Metadata is a separate component, and Plex fetches artwork, summaries and episode titles from its own servers rather than storing them all locally. When that component is degraded, the library shows raw filenames. Playback usually still works. Avoid triggering a full library refresh during the incident, since it can overwrite good local metadata.
Does an outage stop Plex live TV and free channels?
Live TV and guide data are tracked separately from the core service, so channels can fail while your personal library plays normally. The reverse also happens. Since the free channels are streamed from Plex rather than from your server, they are more exposed to an incident than your own media is.
Should I sign out and back in to fix Plex?
Not during an incident. Signing out clears the client's session, and signing back in requires the authentication server that is currently unavailable, which turns a partial problem into no access at all. Wait for status.plex.tv to clear before touching sign-in, and try a direct local connection meanwhile.

How we measure this

  • We request Plex's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. Our checks only change their verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where Plex publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Plex itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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