CursorOutage history and postmortems
Downtime, added up
Cursor: 18h 21m weighted downtime in range, category median 7h 38m.
82 incidents, 6d 16h of incident time (2d 2h major or critical, 4d 13h partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.
The AI code editor and its cloud agents.
Stated causes
206 incidents with no cause stated.
Cursor incidents
209 on fileInvestigating service degradation - Grok 4.7Sep 23, 2026, 20:289mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating , Cloud Agent Dockerfile BuildsSep 23, 2026, 17:141h 29mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Automations and Cloud Agents w/ Grok 4.7Sep 22, 2026, 13:0244mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 22, 2026, 01:0736mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 21, 2026, 06:3922mMinorNot disclosed
Sign-in and dashboard errors for some usersSep 18, 2026, 23:0211mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Grok BotSep 18, 2026, 17:195h 43mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Grok BotSep 18, 2026, 11:372h 56mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Cloud Agents and AutomationsSep 17, 2026, 15:204h 44mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Grok BotSep 17, 2026, 12:302h 4mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Grok BotSep 16, 2026, 14:276h 30mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 16, 2026, 08:0340mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 15, 2026, 21:2633mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating Grok service degradationSep 14, 2026, 08:1453mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 11, 2026, 11:0827mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Review Agents and Cloud AgentsSep 10, 2026, 17:0725mMinorNot disclosed
Grok Bot computers unreachable for some usersSep 7, 2026, 20:321h 5mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , CLI, Cloud Agents, and IDESep 7, 2026, 13:350mMinorNot disclosed
Degraded performance for Grok Bot routine triggersSep 3, 2026, 23:421hMajorNot disclosed
Degraded performance of Grok 4.6Sep 3, 2026, 17:421h 39mMinorNot disclosed
Elevated errors for OpenAI ModelsSep 3, 2026, 15:171h 48mMinorNot disclosed
Elevated errors for Anthropic ModelsSep 3, 2026, 14:172h 15mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 3, 2026, 13:413h 26mCriticalNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Automations, Cloud Agents, Review AgentsSep 2, 2026, 14:501h 20mMajorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 2, 2026, 00:482h 19mMinorNot disclosed
Degraded performance of Grok 4.5Sep 1, 2026, 16:421h 58mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradationSep 1, 2026, 01:0113mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , cursor.com and IDEAug 27, 2026, 19:317mCriticalNot disclosed
Investigating service degradation , Grok BotAug 27, 2026, 14:2342mMinorNot disclosed
Degraded performance of Grok modelsAug 25, 2026, 20:3454mMinorNot disclosed
Questions
Is Cursor down right now?
Check Cursor's own status page at https://status.cursor.com for the live state. This page shows Cursor's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Investigating service degradation - Grok 4.7".
How often does Cursor have outages?
Cursor posted 82 incidents in the last 90 days and 209 in the last year, 22 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 13m.
When was Cursor's last major outage?
2026-09-18: "Investigating service degradation , Grok Bot", lasting 5h 43m.
What usually causes Cursor incidents?
Where Cursor explained the cause, the most common was third-party dependency (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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