Cursor outage: Investigating service degradation — Automations, Cloud Agents, and IDE

Affected components

• Automations
• Cloud Agents
• IDE

1. resolvedAug 13, 2026, 18:49 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. investigatingAug 13, 2026, 14:46 UTC

   All systems and components are operating as expected, but due to a service outage for one of our model providers, agent surfaces using Anthropic Models Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Sonnet 5 may run into issues.

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.

• Grafana Cloud: K6 Test OutageCritical · Aug 13, 2026, 15:25 UTC
• Elasticsearch: Increased error rates for microsoft-multilingual-e5-largeMajor · Aug 13, 2026, 08:32 UTC
• Anthropic: Elevated errors for Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, and Claude Sonnet 5Major · Aug 13, 2026, 14:33 UTC
• Sentry: Span & Transaction ingestion delayed in DEMajor · Aug 13, 2026, 17:47 UTC
• Resend: Errors during the domain creation processMajor · Aug 13, 2026, 18:03 UTC
• Akamai: Certificate Provisioning System (CPS) IssuesMinor · Aug 11, 2026, 10:11 UTC
• GitHub: Errors with the Fable 5 Model in CopilotMinor · Aug 13, 2026, 14:43 UTC
• GitHub: Incident with WebhooksMinor · Aug 13, 2026, 14:45 UTC
• Linode: Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine (IAD2)Minor · Aug 13, 2026, 16:16 UTC
• GitHub: Disruption with GHEC Team SyncMinor · Aug 13, 2026, 16:21 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