# My Plex Server is down (started from auth/api major outage)

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-down-started-from-auth-api-major-outage/538383>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-down-started-from-auth-api-major-outage/538383 "2020-02-06T22:27:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-down-started-from-auth-api-major-outage/538383/3 "2020-02-06T22:37:35Z")

</div>

> [@CWallace](#):
>
> Of course I wonder if it has introduced corruption into my databases

you can check this easily for yourself, @ [Plex Web](https://app.plex.tv/desktop) \> settings \> manage \> console

watch for anything that indicates sqlite database malformed or similar.

also, there is an admin notification on several clients, if you have them enabled.

@theflikz see also existing thread @ [Are the Plex network severs down?](https://forums.plex.tv/t/are-the-plex-network-severs-down/538282/)

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-plex-server-is-down-started-from-auth-api-major-outage/538383)._