Black Forest Labs incident

Flux 3 Launch Traffic

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Black Forest Labs experienced a major incident on August 4, 2026, lasting 17h 43m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 04, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 05, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC
Duration
17h 43m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 04, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 04, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

    We are experiencing significant traffic from our Flux 3 launch and are working to serve all customers. We appreciate your understanding and are working to lower generation times and give everyone the chance to experience our new video models!

  2. monitoring Aug 05, 2026, 02:39 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Aug 05, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC

    We have completed initial scaling and optimizations to enable more traffic through on the flux-3-video api. The BFL team are excited to see what everyone creates!