Grok Partial Outage - August 17, 2026

Provider incident title: “[API (us-east-1.api.x.ai)] grok-4.6 and grok-4.5 high error rate”

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Started

Monday, August 17, 2026

09:57 PM UTC

Duration

1h 30m

total

Resolved

11:28 PM UTC

Aug 17, 2026

Severity: Partial Outage|Affected: Grok|Duration: 1h 30m

Incident Timeline

11:28 PM UTC—Resolved

Status: ACTIVE Severity: disruption Updates: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:57:42 GMT Elevated TTFT and 500 rate on grok models We are investigating an issue with one of our GPU clusters

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