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[Grok Bot] Investigating service degradation - xAI models

Partial outage Lasted 0m · started · xAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Down Index
28of 100

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Root cause

We have identified the cause of degraded performance affecting xAI models and are working to restore full capacity.

Category: Capacity

Read the postmortem

Updates from xAI 1

  1. resolved

    Status: RESOLVED Severity: disruption Resolved: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:18:00 GMT Updates: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:18:00 GMT Resolved This incident has been resolved. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:01:46 GMT Investigating We have identified the cause of degraded performance affecting xAI models and are working to restore full capacity. Users may see errors, slow responses, or rate limiting on these models, and some Cloud Agent tasks may fail. We will post another update shortly. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:43:08 GMT Investigating We are investigating a service degradation affecting xAI models. Some Agent requests may fail.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-6817813418

Is xAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC. For xAI's live state, see https://down.guide/xai.

How long did it last?

0m, from 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC to 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC, by the times xAI posted.

What caused it?

Capacity. xAI wrote: "We have identified the cause of degraded performance affecting xAI models and are working to restore full capacity." The postmortem: https://status.x.ai/grok-bot/dk1g1h4q8yf8

Where does this come from?

xAI's official status page, https://status.x.ai, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.