What should I do if Roku is down for me?

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage. Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website. Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does. Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

Streaming

Is Roku down right now?

No, it’s up.

Roku appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-08 15:06 UTC

responded in 368ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Roku has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~372 ms. The most recent outage began 2026-09-03 05:27 UTC and lasted 15m (severity: degraded).

Roku makes the streaming players and TV operating system that other services run inside, so a Roku account or channel-store outage can stop apps launching even when those apps are healthy.

Is Roku down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching Roku normally right now, and it answered our last one in 368ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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Roku response time (last 24h)

Last 24h

peak 2405 ms

Roku incident history (last 90 days)

JulAugSep

up
slow
down
no reading

Date	What happened	Duration	Severity
2026-09-03 05:27 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Degraded
2026-08-31 00:50 UTC	Measured by our checks	15m	Degraded

Roku uptime

100.00%
7 days: 100.00%
30 days: 100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 19 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days Roku reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if Roku is down for just you

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage.
Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website.
Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does.
Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

Frequently asked questions

Roku appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-08 15:06 UTC.

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