Outage recap · Cognition

Windsurf outage — April 9, 2026

On April 9, 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 under heavy load

minor
Started
Apr 9, 4:47 PM EDT
Resolved
Apr 9, 6:48 PM EDT
Duration
2h 1m

Cognition's updates (3)

  1. investigating · Apr 9, 4:47 PM EDT

    We are investigating degraded performance with our auth provider. Please retry if you're unable to log in.

  2. monitoring · Apr 9, 4:54 PM EDT

    A fix has been applied and we're monitoring error rates.

  3. resolved · Apr 9, 6:48 PM EDT

    This incident has been resolved.

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