Changes / Cursor / Investigating service degradation - xAI models
Cursor: Major incident: Investigating service degradation - xAI models
Summary
Cursor reported a major xAI model degradation affecting CLI, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot, and IDE: users could see errors, slow responses, rate limiting, and failed Agent requests or Cloud Agent tasks. It started at 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-29 20:18 UTC; the reported duration was 34 min.
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After: CLI, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot, IDE
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After: We are investigating a service degradation affecting xAI models. Some Agent requests may fail.
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After: 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.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: Investigating service degradation - xAI models (this change) Cursor reported a major xAI model degradation affecting CLI, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot, and IDE: users could see errors, slow responses, rate limiting, and failed Agent requests or Cloud Agent tasks. It started at 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-29 20:18 UTC; the reported duration was 34 min. | Major incident |