Plex outage, 20 August 2026

Playback issue on Samsung TV

Started
Resolved
20 Aug 2026, 11:41 UTC - reported afterwards
Impact
Critical

Last update from Plex

We rollbacked to the previous version, playback is working fine now

20 Aug 2026, 11:41 UTC

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Other Plex incidents

  1. 401 responses for Luma requests with proxy token

  2. my-plex pods resolved DB's DNS to old/blue DB instead of new/green one

  3. No AVOD ads on iOS or tvOS

  4. plex.direct name resolution

  5. Outbound connection issue from our prod-us-east-1 kubernetes cluster

  6. Watch-Together - Rooms creation failure

  7. DNS Issues with plex.tv API

  8. plex.direct name resolution issue

All recorded Plex incidents