Outage recap · Cognition

Windsurf outage — April 8, 2026

On April 8, 2026, Windsurf had a reported incident on Cognition's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Authentication Experiencing Degraded Performance

minor
Started
Apr 8, 8:30 PM EDT
Resolved
Apr 9, 11:16 AM EDT
Duration
14h 47m

Cognition's updates (4)

  1. investigating · Apr 8, 8:30 PM EDT

    We are investigating the issue, please try again if you experience issues

  2. identified · Apr 8, 9:00 PM EDT

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring · Apr 9, 2:35 AM EDT

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved · Apr 9, 11:16 AM EDT

    We have confirmed authentication is stable.

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