Mixer is down right now, engineers working on a fix (update: it's back)

Mixer
Mixer (Image credit: Microsoft)

What you need to know

  • Mixer is down right now.
  • The company says it has identified the issue, which impacts the Xbox app, API, Mixer on the web, and more.
  • Mixer's engineers are working on a fix.

If you haven't been able to stream any Mixer content tonight, you're not alone. Microsoft's game streaming service is down right now, though the company says it's working on a fix.

According to Mixer's status page, issues were detected starting around 7:40 p.m. ET. The Mixer API, web experience, Xbox app, dashboard, and other portions of the service were all impacted in some way.

Mixer Outage April 6

Source: Mixer (Image credit: Source: Mixer)

As of 8:09 p.m. ET, Mixer says some services are recovering and it is continuing to monitor things. We'll update this post with more once service is completely restored.

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