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Grammarly: Major incident: Grammarly is experiencing a service interruption

Summary

Grammarly reported a major service interruption affecting suggestions for some users, with components including Writing Suggestions, Generative AI assistance, and Plagiarism Detection listed as affected. It started at 2025-03-18 18:01 UTC and was resolved at 2025-03-18 21:14 UTC, lasting 3 h 12 min. Grammarly reported implementing a fix but did not disclose the root cause.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 75%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Grammarly is experiencing a service interruption
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2025-03-18 18:01 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2025-03-18 21:14 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Generative AI assistance, Grammarly Editor, Grammarly for Android, Grammarly for iPad, Grammarly for iPhone, Grammarly for Mac, Grammarly for Microsoft Office, Grammarly for Microsoft Word on Mac, Grammarly for Samsung Keyboard, Grammarly for Windows, Grammarly's Browser Extension, Plagiarism Detection, Writing Suggestions
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: It seems we're still experiencing a service interruption. Some users may experience issues with suggestions. We’re investigating the problem and will provide an update as soon as possible.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
AddedUpdateidentified#10
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After: Our team has identified the root cause and they're implementing a fix for this issue. Thank you for bearing with us! We will provide another update soon.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#11
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
AddedUpdateresolved#12
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Grammarly is experiencing a service interruption (this change)
Grammarly reported a major service interruption affecting suggestions for some users, with components including Writing Suggestions, Generative AI assistance, and Plagiarism Detection listed as affected. It started at 2025-03-18 18:01 UTC and was resolved at 2025-03-18 21:14 UTC, lasting 3 h 12 min. Grammarly reported implementing a fix but did not disclose the root cause.
Major incident

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