Model Performance Issue: llama-3.1-8b-instant

What to do

• Check whether your product depends on Groq. Check your stack

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• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 37m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2025-11-04 02:11 UTC and 2025-11-04 02:47 UTC may need a replay.

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Updates from Groq 3

1. identifiedNov 4, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

   We have **identified an issue** affecting the lama-3.1-8b-instant service. A fix is in progress. Users may still experience latency until the fix completes.

   provider

2. monitoringNov 4, 2025, 2:33 AM UTC

   We have **implemented a fix** for llama-3.1-8b-instant service and performance is improving. We’re now **monitoring** the model to ensure stability. If all remains normal, we will resolve the incident in the next update.

   provider

3. resolvedNov 4, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

   The issues affecting llama-3.1-8b-instant have been **resolved**. The model is operating normally. Root cause: Two recent changes to the inference-engine-instances repository that were contributing to the elevated Orion LoRA latencies were reverted . We apologize for the disruption and thank you for your patience.

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Corrections

None so far.

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