# How to Monitor Discord Uptime

> Discord is a communication platform for communities and teams, offering voice, video, and text chat.

*Source: https://monitoristic.com/monitor/discord*

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## Why Monitor Discord?

If you use Discord for community support, team chat, or webhook alerts, an outage means missed messages and lost context. Bot integrations fail silently — no errors, just silence.

## What to Monitor

- `discord.com` — Main app availability
- `discord.com/api` — Bot and integration API
- `cdn.discordapp.com` — File and media delivery

## What You Should Actually Do

1. Monitor discord.com and the API endpoint — catch both app and bot outages
2. Don't rely on Discord as your only community channel — have a backup (email list, Twitter, website)
3. Send critical alerts to Telegram, not Discord — if Discord is your alert destination and it's down, alerts vanish
4. Bookmark discordstatus.com — Discord's official status page
5. Check your bot's error logs after every Discord outage — queued messages may need to be resent

## Discord's Official Status Page

Discord publishes real-time status at https://discordstatus.com. Your own monitor complements it by catching connection-level issues, often before the status page updates.

## Takeaway

Discord outages are quiet. Messages don't fail loudly — they just don't arrive. If your community, support, or alerting depends on Discord, you need an external signal that tells you when Discord itself is the problem. The two hours between "Discord is down" and "someone emails you about it" is the gap that monitoring closes.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I get notified when Discord goes down?

Set up an HTTP monitor for discord.com on Monitoristic with Telegram alerts — not Discord webhooks. When Discord is down, your Telegram alert still works.

### Can I monitor Discord's bot API separately?

Yes. Create separate monitors for discord.com and discord.com/api. The main app can work while the API is degraded, affecting bots but not regular users.

### Should I send alerts to Discord?

Not as your only channel. If Discord is both your alert destination and the thing that's down, you get nothing. Use Discord as a secondary and Telegram or webhooks as your primary.

### How is this different from discordstatus.com?

Discord's status page covers their global platform. Your monitor checks whether YOU can reach Discord. Regional or network-level issues may affect you without appearing on their global status page.