Perplexity outage on August 31, 2026: Computer Tasks Degraded
Perplexity reported an incident affecting Perplexity for 16 minutes on 31 August 2026, from 23:50 to 00:06 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Perplexity
- Started
- 23:50
- 31 Aug 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 00:06
- 1 Sep 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 16m
- 16 minutes
- Impact
- -
- as rated by Perplexity
- Updates
- 4
- posted by Perplexity
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Perplexity
Computer Tasks Degraded
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Official
Investigating
We have identified some degradation in Computer tasks and investigating the root cause.
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Official
Identified
We have identified the root cause and rolled back.
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Official
Monitoring
Rollback completed and we are monitoring the health of Computer tasks.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Perplexity's public status page, status.perplexity.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test www.perplexity.ai 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 Perplexity status shows what our checks see right now.
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