Cloudinary outage: Elevated Error Rates for Requests Using g_auto

Affected components

• Media Transformation API - AP

1. resolvedJul 12, 2026, 12:44 UTC

   The incident has been resolved. Services have returned to normal, and all previously affected URLs are now functioning correctly.

2. monitoringJul 12, 2026, 10:20 UTC

   An issue affecting requests that included the g_auto transformation resulted in elevated error rates beginning at approximately 09:00 UTC on Sunday, July 12. The issue has been resolved, and we are continuing to monitor.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Cloudinary's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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