Outage recap · xAI

Grok outage — October 6, 2026

On October 6, 2026, Grok had 2 reported incidents on xAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Enterprise Voice Degraded

major
Started
Oct 6, 3:03 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 6, 3:31 PM EDT
Duration
28 min

xAI's updates (2)

  1. investigating · Oct 6, 4:03 PM EDT

    We identified an issue with Enterprise Voice that affected some users from 12:03 PT to 12:31 PT.

  2. resolved · Oct 6, 4:03 PM EDT

    The incident has now been fully resolved and all services are now operating normally.

What our checks recorded

We checked Grok 6 times from xAI's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Every one of them reached Grok's site, so this incident did not show up as a failed page load. Our check loads the public site; it cannot see an API error or a broken feature. Median response time was 141 ms, against 199 ms over the 24 hours before. xAI posted the incident at Oct 6, 3:03 PM EDT.

Updates are xAI's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause.

grok.com

critical
Started
Oct 6, 8:24 PM EDT
Resolved
Oct 6, 8:30 PM EDT
Duration
6 min

xAI's updates (2)

  1. investigating · Oct 6, 8:24 PM EDT

    We are investigating an outage on the web grok.com surface

  2. resolved · Oct 6, 8:30 PM EDT

    Issue has been resolved.

What our checks recorded

We checked Grok 1 time from xAI's start time to its resolution, once every five minutes. Our request could not reach Grok on 1 of those checks. Our checks failed within ten minutes of that: xAI posted the incident at Oct 6, 8:24 PM EDT.

Updates are xAI's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause.

The AI cascade

Grok depends on xAI. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit Grok alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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Is Grok down right now? →Grok status history →

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