Cursor outage: GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, Codebase

Affected components

• Automations
• Cloud Agents
• Origin
• Review Agents

1. resolvedAug 17, 2026, 20:40 UTC

   The affected Cursor services have recovered. We’re resolving this incident and will continue monitoring service health.

2. investigatingAug 17, 2026, 19:43 UTC

   We’re seeing signs of recovery, consistent with our upstream dependency’s latest status updates. We’re continuing to monitor our service health and GitHub's upstream status (https://www.githubstatus.com/)

3. investigatingAug 17, 2026, 15:25 UTC

   We are currently investigating this issue. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

4. investigatingAug 17, 2026, 14:34 UTC

   We are investigating a service degradation affecting Automations, Cloud Agents, Review Agents and Codebase related to a GitHub degradation reported in GitHub's status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/

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

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

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• dbt Cloud: Git Failures in dbt PlatformMajor · Aug 17, 2026, 15:02 UTC
• Shippo: EVRi Label generation outageMajor · Aug 17, 2026, 16:27 UTC
• Akamai: Connection drops and increased latency in MiamiMinor · Aug 13, 2026, 19:31 UTC
• Supabase: 401 errors due to JWT rejectionsMinor · Aug 14, 2026, 02:23 UTC
• HashiCorp Vault: Delayed HCP Terraform RunsMinor · Aug 15, 2026, 17:08 UTC
• LaunchDarkly: Flag Updates via Polling API delayedMinor · Aug 17, 2026, 10:36 UTC
• GitBook: GitHub outage affecting Git SyncMinor · Aug 17, 2026, 13:56 UTC

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