Incident archive

Grok outage January 26, 2026

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Grok API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) was down for 6 min on January 26, 2026.

Grok recorded a major-impact incident affecting API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) on January 26, 2026. It ran for 6 min — 2 h 17 min shorter than the archive median of 2 h 23 min.

ASK
Started
January 26, 2026, 19:53 UTC
Resolved
January 26, 2026, 19:59 UTC
Duration
6 min
Impact
Major

What was affected?

How long did it last?

  1. January 26, 2026, 19:53 UTCInvestigatingT+0
  2. January 26, 2026, 19:59 UTCResolvedT+6 min

Has this happened before?

This was incident 9 of 22 recorded in January 2026, totalling 58 h 43 min of reported disruption across all Grok components that month. API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) was affected by 2 other recorded incidents in the 30 days before this one started. The previous incident touching API (us-east-1.api.x.ai) started on January 21, 2026. These comparisons are drawn from our archive, which starts on January 17, 2025. See the full outage history.

Summarized by Grok Tracker from Grok Status. Last verified .