AIWatch โ€” xAI (Grok) Incidents https://ai-watch.dev Incident updates for xAI (Grok), monitored by AIWatch. en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:45:30 GMT ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Increased Failure Rate of Image Generation and Editing https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC305af888:resolved Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:46:42 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 31m

The incident has been resolved.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai)] Increased Failure Rate of Image Generation and Editing https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC54c445a8:resolved Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:46:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 30m

The incident has been resolved.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Requests Using grok-imagine Models have Reduced Success Rate https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC78c0aac0:resolved Wed, 13 May 2026 16:37:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

We are experiencing issues with grok-imagine models. Our team is working on restoring the service level.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai)] Requests Using grok-imagine Models have Reduced Success Rate https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC38fc6020:resolved Wed, 13 May 2026 16:37:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

We are experiencing issues with grok-imagine models. Our team is working on restoring the service level.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-3 degraded performance https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC3c8ce3f2:resolved Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:50:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1h 18m

Clusters are fully healthy again.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-4-1-fast unstable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC66505d02:resolved Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:20:32 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 48m

We are implementing further layers of protection from malicious requests to prevent this kind of service degradation in the future.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning context size limitation https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC686ffa19:resolved Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:02:23 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 20h 25m

The context length limitation has been mitigated.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai)] grok-code-fast-1 unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC7f850efd:resolved Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:33:54 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

The model is currently unavailable. We are investigating ways to restore the service.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-code-fast-1 unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC4b51791a:resolved Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:33:54 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 24m

We moved traffic to a different region in order to restore availability.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-code-fast-1 unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC2f635a97:resolved Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:59:02 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 6m

Traffic was redirected to a different region and the model is available again.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Models unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC7c0fd2b1:resolved Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:02:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

All models are unavailable on the API. We are working on restoring the service.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai)] Models unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC6bf67591:resolved Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:02:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

All models are unavailable on the API. We are working on restoring the service.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (eu-west-1.api.x.ai)] Issue with using API keys https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC6af6cf60:resolved Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:00:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

You may see error messages such as "Incorrect API key provided" We are actively working on resolving the problem.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Models unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC10b35980:resolved Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:19:48 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 2h 27m

This incident is now resolved.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Model fails to process very long prompts https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC46dbbd89:resolved Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:16:17 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 57m

grok-4-fast is fully operational for long prompts.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] TEST TEST TEST https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INCdea3771:resolved Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:59:34 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 6m

This is testing our alerting system

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] EAPI us-east-1 incident https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC4295db12:resolved Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:08:06 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 7h 35m

We have deployed a number of fixes and service is currently healthy.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] API Inference Incident https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INCcb17e2:resolved Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:42:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 18m

We have addressed the issue and status of the inference api is healthy again.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Grok 4 capacity issues https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC530d7e98:resolved Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:28:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1h 18m

We added more capacity to resolve the current performance issues and will add an additional batch of GPUs later today to increase headroom.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] API https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC5e4b8f66:resolved Tue, 10 Jun 2025 06:20:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1h 12m

The API access to all models is restored.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Grok-3 structured output and function calling unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC2592e4a7:resolved Tue, 27 May 2025 09:01:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 18h 1m

All the capabilities of grok-3 models have been restored.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Grok-3 Temporarily Unavailable https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC2377cdea:resolved Wed, 21 May 2025 10:20:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 18m

We have restored the operation of Grok-3 models

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Increased Latency for Chat Completions https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC6cdd1aed:resolved Tue, 20 May 2025 05:00:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 19h 10m

The issue has been resolved. The latency is returning to normal.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Disruption on Some Models https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INCfea6181:resolved Tue, 13 May 2025 15:50:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 2h 15m

We have resolved the issue and all customers should be able to access the models without issues.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Structured Output Unavailable on grok-2-1212 https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC37e86c9b:resolved Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:30:00 GMT major ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

Structured output is temporarily unavailable on grok-2-1212. Our team is investigating the situation and working on a fix.

]]> ๐ŸŸข xAI (Grok): Resolved โ€” [API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] Time Out on grok-2-1212 https://ai-watch.dev/is-xai-down?e=resolved aiwatch:xai:INC1bc684df:resolved Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:40:00 GMT minor ๐ŸŸข Resolved ยท lasted 1m

The usage of grok-2-1212 is redirected to grok-beta during the incident. A fix is currently being deployed.

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