Is Grok Bot down? October 28 outage hit Cloud Agents and Bugbot, resolved after 1 hour 58 minutes

What was affected and for how long

xAI's status page (status.x.ai) lists an incident titled Multiple services degraded on October 28, 2026. It is rated major impact and is now marked resolved. The first update, posted at 21:15 UTC, said users might see failures across Cloud Agents, Grok Bot and Origin. At 21:39 UTC xAI widened the list to Automations, Bugbot, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot and Origin.

xAI marked the incident resolved at 23:13 UTC and said all services had returned to normal operation. From the first update to that point is about 1 hour 58 minutes. The status page says the incident affected Automations, BugBot, Cloud Agents, Grok Bot and Origin.

Sources: Multiple services degraded

Timeline from the status page

21:15 UTC: xAI was investigating degraded service across several products, with failures possible in Cloud Agents, Grok Bot and Origin. 21:39 UTC: Automations and Bugbot were added, and xAI said it was working on a fix. 22:06 UTC: a fix had been put in place and services were starting to recover. 22:40 UTC: services had recovered and xAI was monitoring them. It asked anyone still seeing errors to try again, and posted the same update again at 22:42 UTC. 23:13 UTC: the incident was resolved.

Sources: Multiple services degraded

Usage and billing

The status page does not mention any effect on usage limits, credits or billing, and it gives no cause. Its 22:40 UTC update asked users who were still seeing errors to try again.

Sources: Multiple services degraded