# Cursor outage on 29 September 2026

> On 29 September, Cursor had a major outage from 19:43 to 20:18 UTC (35 minutes), affecting xAI models across its CLI, Cloud Agents, IDE and Grok Bot. The status page said users might see errors, slow responses or rate limiting on these models, and that some Agent and Cloud Agent requests could fail. It also said the cause had been identified, but did not say what it was. ElevenLabs, Bluesky, Daxko and Affirm also reported problems around the same time.

- Service: [Cursor](https://stackpulse.app/services/cursor.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Investigating service degradation - xAI models
- Started: 2026-09-29 19:43 UTC
- Ended: 2026-09-29 20:18 UTC
- Lasted: 35 min
- Incident open on the status page: 19:43–20:18 UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/dh24kf0vcpl8
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/cursor/outages/2026-09-29-1943

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | partial outage | 2026-09-29 19:43 | 2026-09-29 20:18 |
| Cloud Agents | partial outage | 2026-09-29 19:43 | 2026-09-29 20:18 |
| IDE | partial outage | 2026-09-29 19:43 | 2026-09-29 20:18 |
| Grok Bot | partial outage | 2026-09-29 19:43 | 2026-09-29 20:18 |

## At the same time

- [ElevenLabs](https://stackpulse.app/services/elevenlabs.md): major_outage from 2026-09-29 18:49 UTC
- [Bluesky](https://stackpulse.app/services/bluesky.md): major_outage from 2026-09-29 19:12 UTC
- [Daxko](https://stackpulse.app/services/daxko.md): issue from 2026-09-29 19:21 UTC
- [Affirm](https://stackpulse.app/services/affirm.md): issue from 2026-09-29 19:27 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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