Cursor outage on September 3, 2026: Elevated errors for OpenAI Models
Cursor reported an incident affecting Cursor for 1 hour 48 minutes on 3 September 2026, from 15:17 to 17:05 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Cursor
- Started
- 15:17
- 3 Sep 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 17:05
- 3 Sep 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 1h 48m
- 1 hour 48 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Cursor
- Updates
- 2
- posted by Cursor
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Cursor
Elevated errors for OpenAI Models
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Official
Investigating
An upstream OpenAI issue is causing elevated errors for ChatGPT. Some users may experience errors or failed Agent turns. We're monitoring recovery and will provide updates.
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Official
Resolved
Elevated errors affecting OpenAI models have been resolved. Service has been restored.
"Official" rows are quoted from Cursor's public status page, status.cursor.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test cursor.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Cursor status shows what our checks see right now.
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