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Cursor outage: Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot

Cursor reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 18, 2026, 17:19 UTC. It was resolved after 5h 43m.

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Sep 18, 2026, 17:19 UTC
started
Sep 18, 2026, 23:02 UTC
resolved
5h 43m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Grok Bot
  1. resolvedSep 18, 2026, 23:02 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringSep 18, 2026, 19:53 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring for service restoration. Grok Bot should be responding normally again.

  3. identifiedSep 18, 2026, 19:01 UTC

    The root cause has been identified and a fix is being rolled out. Some users may see Grok Bot respond slowly or not respond at all. We will provide another update shortly.

  4. investigatingSep 18, 2026, 17:19 UTC

    We are investigating a service degradation affecting Grok Bot.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

Other services with incidents at the same time

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How often does Cursor have incidents?

Cursor reported 50 incidents in the last 90 days, 15 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 8m. See Cursor's uptime and incident history

Cursor outage on Sep 18, 2026: Investigating service degradation — Grok Bot · APIStatus.watch