Cursor incident: Opus 5.5 is Experiencing 429s

Affected components

• Automations
• CLI
• Cloud Agents
• Grok Bot
• IDE
• Review Agents

1. resolvedOct 8, 2026, 15:31 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringOct 8, 2026, 14:08 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring for service restoration.

3. investigatingOct 8, 2026, 13:54 UTC

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

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 8, 2026, 13:59 UTCoperational → degraded
• Oct 8, 2026, 15:33 UTCdegraded → operational

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

• Sanity: Elevated listener latency and error rate impacting Studio loadingCritical · Oct 8, 2026, 09:55 UTC
• Anthropic: Elevated errors on platform.claude.comMajor · Oct 7, 2026, 13:25 UTC
• ElevenLabs: Agent SIP Conversation DisruptionMajor · Oct 8, 2026, 15:19 UTC
• Zoom: Service Degradation Affecting Customer Using Polycom Devices Going OfflineMinor · Sep 25, 2026, 17:45 UTC
• Twilio: MMS Delivery Delays from a Subset of Twilio Long Codes to GCI United StatesMinor · Sep 26, 2026, 03:16 UTC
• Clerk: Development instances only - Apple rejecting emailsMinor · Sep 28, 2026, 15:23 UTC
• Grafana Cloud: IRM Unable to Send SMS to Thailand NumbersMinor · Oct 5, 2026, 16:17 UTC
• LiveKit: Investigating reports of elevated RoomService API errorsMinor · Oct 6, 2026, 00:10 UTC
• Twilio: SMS Delivery Delays and Failures from Twilio to Movistar El SalvadorMinor · Oct 6, 2026, 20:59 UTC
• Twilio: SMS Delivery Delays from Twilio to Brisanet BrazilMinor · Oct 7, 2026, 14:02 UTC

How often does Cursor have incidents?

Cursor reported 88 incidents in the last 90 days, 22 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 8m. See Cursor's uptime and incident history