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Is Descript down right now?

No. Descript has a current operational conclusion. Fresh official operational result confirmed by a healthy reachability check from the PulseWatch runtime (single region, HTTP reachability only).

Status as of Sep 20, 2026 16:45 UTC

Normal

Descript is operating normally

As of Sep 20, 2026 16:45 UTC

No elevated reports in the last 15 minutes. Baseline 5 reports/hour.

Reports 24h

0

Last incident

Sep 14, 2026 14:28 UTC

Trend

0/15m

Baseline

5/hr

Product checks

Coverage gap: no product check is qualified to corroborate an incident for this service. Homepage and gateway checks do not verify the affected workflow.

Observed health

Unknown

No samples qualify for a combined success and latency score.

Evidence strength

No current issue evidence

No current corroborated or observed finding.

Evidence describes support for an issue, not its outage probability.

Monitoring coverage

0/0 configured operation checks fresh

0 operation checks qualified for evidence · 0 measurement origins.

Other operations and customer regions remain unverified.

How this score works

100 × successful samples within the latency target ÷ assessed samples. Targets use a historical operation-latency baseline and are heuristic. Server failures count as failed samples; successful responses without a qualified target are shown separately. Only named operations are measured. Vendor statements, report volume, forecasts and incident records do not add score points.

A component issue stays visible even when other operations pass. Forecasts are separate from current health.

30 days incident history

Daily incident severity and duration for Descript.

2

Incident days

28

No recorded incident

8h 48m

Recorded duration

No recorded incident — health unknownLow or mediumHigh or critical
Recorded incidents remain visible regardless of current monitoring status. Days without records do not establish historical coverage or healthy service.
Showing available records within the selected range.

30-day outage frequency

Recorded incidents per day and recorded incident duration for Descript. Hover a day for detail.

Aug 22Aug 27Sep 1Sep 6Sep 11Sep 1601234

Green baseline markers mean no recorded incident. These records do not establish historical monitoring coverage or verified uptime.

2

Days with incidents

2 incidents

Busiest day

8h 48m

Recorded duration

Report volume

0 reports in last 24H

04:45 PM08:15 PM11:45 PM03:15 AM06:45 AM10:15 AM01:45 PM00.511.52baseline 1

Issue types

No data

Top cities

No location data

Top providers

No provider data

Reliability

Detected by PulseWatch

30-day uptime

98.8%

90-day uptime

99.59%

Calculated from Descript's detected incidents. Lower than the vendor's own reported SLA? That's the whole point — we measure what users actually experience.

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Incident timeline

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ResolvedHigh

Descript: the vendor reports a major disruption on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed; no customer alert is sent until a second independent source agrees.

9/14/2026, 1:26:38 PM · 1h 1m

01:26 PM02:28 PM
Detection9/14/2026, 1:26:38 PM · 6d ago

Detected — high severity

Descript: the vendor reports a major disruption on its own status page. Single origin, not independently confirmed; no customer alert is sent until a second independent source agrees.

ResolvedMedium

Descript incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

9/4/2026, 1:58:44 PM · 3h 28m

01:58 PM05:27 PM
Detection9/4/2026, 1:58:44 PM · 16d ago

Detected — medium severity

Descript incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

ResolvedMedium

Descript incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

9/4/2026, 1:39:18 AM · 4h 17m

01:39 AM05:57 AM
Detection9/4/2026, 1:39:18 AM · 16d ago

Detected — medium severity

Descript incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

DetectionPeakStatus updateResolvedCrowd warning

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Signal quality

Live signal

Status
Normal
Monitoring
Fresh official operational result confirmed by a healthy reachability check from the PulseWatch runtime (single region, HTTP reachability only).
Coverage
Verified against the vendor's own incident history
Reports (24h)
0
Baseline / hour
5
Open threshold
3x

Official site

descript.com