Possible Outage Resolved

Grok possible outage on Jun 17, 2026 — 3 hours 20 minutes incident report

Grok appeared to experience a possible outage for 3 hours 20 minutes on Jun 17, 2026.

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ServiceGrok
StartedJun 17, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
ResolvedJun 18, 2026 at 01:01 UTC
Total duration3 hours 20 minutes
Peak severityPossible Outage
DetectionDirect availability check

Timeline

  1. Possible issue detected
  2. Confirmed by re-check
  3. Service responding normally

What happened

On Jun 17, 2026, Grok appeared to experience a possible outage lasting 3 hours 20 minutes, according to our automated monitoring. The incident was first detected by Are The Bots Down's monitoring system at Jun 17, 2026 at 21:40 UTC and our checks resumed normal results at Jun 18, 2026 at 01:01 UTC. Automated availability checks against publicly accessible endpoints reported the issue during this window. 21 status observations were recorded across the lifetime of this incident.

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