Cursor outage history

Biggest Cursor outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

1. Sep 3, 2026: Investigating service degradation 3 hours 26 min · rated "Critical"
2. Sep 16, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot 6 hours 30 min · rated "Major"
3. Sep 18, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot 5 hours 43 min · rated "Major"
4. Sep 18, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot 2 hours 56 min · rated "Major"
5. Oct 6, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents and Grok Bot 2 hours 39 min · rated "Major"
6. Sep 3, 2026: Elevated errors for Anthropic Models 2 hours 15 min · rated "Major"
7. Sep 17, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot 2 hours 4 min · rated "Major"
8. Sep 2, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Automations, Cloud Agents, Review Agents 1 hour 20 min · rated "Major"
9. Oct 6, 2026: Investigating service degradation - Security Reviewer Agents 1 hour 7 min · rated "Major"
10. Sep 7, 2026: Grok Bot computers unreachable for some users 1 hour 5 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller Cursor incident

Minor and short incidents from the Cursor status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

• Oct 21, 2026, 17:40 UTC · Elevated errors for Bitbucket Cloud integrations

  13 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "Atlassian has reported the issue as resolved and they are continuing to monitor for service restoration."

• Oct 21, 2026, 15:46 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  1 hour 54 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting billing dashboards. You may notice errors in regards to billing, usage, and plan changes."

• Oct 21, 2026, 10:37 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  duration not stated · rated "Minor"

  "We experienced service degradation affecting Anthropic models between 5:56 ET and 6:21 ET, which has since been resolved."

• Oct 19, 2026, 18:09 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  19 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot and grok.com. You may notice errors related to billing, plans, and usage."

• Oct 19, 2026, 16:15 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  1 hour 7 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot where routines may be delayed."

• Oct 19, 2026, 13:24 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  27 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience!"

• Oct 15, 2026, 22:25 UTC · Elevated errors affecting Grok models

  6 hours 56 min · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved. Grok models in Cursor are working normally again."

• Oct 14, 2026, 15:46 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  5 hours 18 min · rated "Minor"

  "We've identified the issue impacting Grok Bot for some users and are working on a fix."

• Oct 13, 2026, 21:13 UTC · Grok Bot routines not triggering

  duration not stated · rated "Major"

  "Between 10:52 AM and 1:29 PM PT on October 13, many Grok Bot routines started by webhooks, Slack, git, email and Linear events didn't run."

• Oct 13, 2026, 00:22 UTC · Degraded performance and errors across Cursor services

  2 hours 46 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a widespread issue affecting Cursor. Users may see errors or failed requests across the IDE, Cloud Agents, Automations, Grok Bot, and Origin. Our team is actively working to restore service."

• Oct 9, 2026, 22:37 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents and Grok Bot

  31 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved. New Cloud Agents and Grok Bot sessions are starting normally again."

• Oct 9, 2026, 21:31 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents

  12 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents."

• Oct 8, 2026, 19:52 UTC · Elevated errors affecting Opus 5.5

  58 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Opus 5.5. Users may see intermittent errors or failed requests when using Opus 5.5."

• Oct 8, 2026, 13:54 UTC · Opus 5.5 is Experiencing 429s

  1 hour 37 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation with Opus 5.5 being used across all product components."

• Oct 7, 2026, 15:59 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  1 hour 26 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot's computers in certain regions."

• Oct 6, 2026, 22:48 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents

  17 minutes · rated "Major"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents."

• Oct 6, 2026, 12:40 UTC · Elevated errors affecting Anthropic models

  3 hours 20 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Opus 5.5. More information: https://status.claude.com/incidents/ch27pb90bn85"

• Oct 3, 2026, 06:50 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot and Review Agents

  36 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot and Review Agents."

September 2026

• Sep 29, 2026, 19:43 UTC · Investigating service degradation - xAI models

  35 minutes · rated "Major"

  "We have identified the cause of degraded performance affecting xAI models and are working to restore full capacity. Users may see errors, slow responses, or rate limiting on these models, and some Cloud Agent tasks may fail."

• Sep 29, 2026, 14:25 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents and Grok Bot

  3 hours 41 min · rated "Minor"

  "The root cause has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 28, 2026, 20:23 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  13 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot."

• Sep 25, 2026, 23:47 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  45 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot."

• Sep 25, 2026, 05:17 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  1 hour 34 min · rated "Minor"

  "The service degradation affecting Grok Bot has been resolved."

• Sep 23, 2026, 20:28 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok 4.7

  9 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating degraded performance for requests that use Grok 4.7."

• Sep 23, 2026, 17:14 UTC · Investigating - Cloud Agent Dockerfile Builds

  1 hour 29 min · rated "Minor"

  "The root cause has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 22, 2026, 13:02 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Automations and Cloud Agents w/ Grok 4.7

  44 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "The root cause has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 22, 2026, 01:07 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  36 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating degraded performance for requests that use Grok models. Users may see failed or retried requests in Automations, Cloud Agents, the CLI, and the IDE when Grok models are used. Other models are unaffected."

• Sep 21, 2026, 06:39 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  22 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating degraded performance for requests that use Grok 4.6. Users may see failed or retried requests in Automations, Cloud Agents, the CLI, and the IDE when Grok 4.6 is used. Other models are unaffected."

• Sep 18, 2026, 23:02 UTC · Sign-in and dashboard errors for some users

  11 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating an issue affecting sign-in. Signing in, signing out, and loading the dashboard may hang or fail. If you are already signed in, your session should continue to work normally. We will provide another update shortly."

• Sep 17, 2026, 15:20 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Cloud Agents and Automations

  4 hours 44 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Cloud Agents and Automations"

• Sep 16, 2026, 08:03 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  40 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating elevated error rates affecting xAI models in the Cursor IDE and CLI. Some Agent requests may fail."

• Sep 15, 2026, 21:26 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  33 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "This incident has been resolved at 6pm Eastern."

• Sep 14, 2026, 08:14 UTC · Investigating Grok service degradation

  53 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok 4.6."

• Sep 11, 2026, 11:08 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  27 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation. Affected agent surfaces: OpenAI models."

• Sep 10, 2026, 17:07 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Review Agents and Cloud Agents

  25 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Review Agents and Cloud Agents. Cloud Agents using "Privacy Mode" may experience errors and start delays. For Review Agents, Security Agents and PR Approval agents are impacted."

• Sep 7, 2026, 13:35 UTC · Investigating service degradation - CLI, Cloud Agents, and IDE

  duration not stated · rated "Minor"

  "Between 12:12 and 13:08 UTC on September 7, 2026, some users may have experienced login or account-related errors. This incident has been resolved. All services have returned to normal operation."

• Sep 3, 2026, 23:42 UTC · Degraded performance for Grok Bot routine triggers

  60 minutes · rated "Major"

  "The root cause has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

• Sep 3, 2026, 17:42 UTC · Degraded performance of Grok 4.6

  1 hour 39 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok 4.6"

• Sep 3, 2026, 15:17 UTC · Elevated errors for OpenAI Models

  1 hour 48 min · rated "Minor"

  "Elevated errors affecting OpenAI models have been resolved. Service has been restored."

• Sep 2, 2026, 00:48 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  2 hours 19 min · rated "Minor"

  "We're currently investigating degraded performance affecting requests made with Composer 2.5 and Grok 4.6 Fast."

• Sep 1, 2026, 16:42 UTC · Degraded performance of Grok 4.5

  1 hour 58 min · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok 4.5"

• Sep 1, 2026, 01:01 UTC · Investigating service degradation

  13 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating degraded performance for requests that use Composer 2.5. Users may see failed or retried requests in Automations, Cloud Agents, the CLI, and the IDE when Composer 2.5 is used. Other models are unaffected."

August 2026

• Aug 27, 2026, 19:31 UTC · Investigating service degradation - cursor.com and IDE

  7 minutes · rated "Critical"

  "This incident has been resolved. Sign-in to Cursor has returned to normal operation."

• Aug 27, 2026, 14:23 UTC · Investigating service degradation - Grok Bot

  42 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot."

• Aug 25, 2026, 20:34 UTC · Degraded performance of Grok models

  54 minutes · rated "Minor"

  "We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok models."

• Aug 25, 2026, 14:54 UTC · Degraded performance of Grok 4.6

  2 hours 43 min · rated "Minor"

  "The root cause has been identified and a fix is being implemented."