Black Forest Labs Outage History

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Pingoru has recorded 50 incidents for Black Forest Labs: 46 in the last 12 months and 9 in the last 90 days.

Source: status.bfl.ml

50incidents recorded
46last 12 months
9last 90 days
6 hourstypical duration

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Major September 29, 2026 EU cluster increased latencies 20h 14m API (api.bfl.ai), API EU (api.eu.bfl.ai)

Started Sep 29, 2026, 02:48 PM UTC· resolved Sep 30, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

  1. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 02:48 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 03:00 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Sep 29, 2026, 03:56 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and 3d party is working on a resolution. To mitigate please consider switching over to api.bfl.ai: https://docs.bfl.ai/api_integration/integration_guidelines

  4. resolved Sep 30, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice September 8, 2026 US region increased latencies 6h 30m

Started Sep 08, 2026, 04:43 AM UTC· resolved Sep 08, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

  1. identified Sep 08, 2026, 04:43 AM UTC

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

  2. resolved Sep 08, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice August 25, 2026 Please avoid cluster specific endpoints. –

Started Aug 25, 2026, 04:51 AM UTC· resolved Aug 25, 2026, 04:51 AM UTC

  1. resolved Aug 25, 2026, 04:51 AM UTC

    After the maintenance on our US3 cluster, the regional endpoint api.us3.bfl.ai is no longer valid, however we are still receiving traffic from certain users. Please ensure to only ever use the global api.bfl.ai or regional api..bfl.ai endpoints as specified in the docs, not cluster specific ones like api.us3.bfl.ai, to avoid using internal domains that may be removed at any time. https://docs.bfl.ai/api_integration/integration_guidelines#api-endpoints-overview

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Minor August 19, 2026 EU region cluster outage 4h 51m API (api.bfl.ai)

Started Aug 19, 2026, 07:47 PM UTC· resolved Aug 20, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

  1. investigating Aug 19, 2026, 07:47 PM UTC

    EU cluster outage leading to slow or failed generations - traffic has been shifted to other clusters on api.bfl.ai - customers using our European endpoint, api.eu.blf.ai, will still see impact

  2. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

    Full capacity restored to api.eu.bfl.ai

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Minor August 19, 2026 Cluster Down - FLUX.2 [flex] Traffic Impacted 7h 41m API (api.bfl.ai)

Started Aug 19, 2026, 11:15 AM UTC· resolved Aug 19, 2026, 06:57 PM UTC

  1. identified Aug 19, 2026, 11:15 AM UTC

    One of our inferencing clusters is down, which is impacting FLUX.2 [flex] traffic. The rest of our models should be unimpacted.

  2. resolved Aug 19, 2026, 06:57 PM UTC

    FLUX.2 [flex] restored - vendor mitigation in place with full recover observed

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Major August 19, 2026 Extended flux-3-video generation times 2h 38m

Started Aug 19, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC· resolved Aug 19, 2026, 03:43 AM UTC

  1. investigating Aug 19, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Aug 19, 2026, 02:44 AM UTC

    Cluster storage outage identified, vendor implementing fix

  3. monitoring Aug 19, 2026, 02:44 AM UTC

    Fix is in place and we are seeing full recovery

  4. resolved Aug 19, 2026, 03:43 AM UTC

    Observing full recovery.

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Notice August 13, 2026 US4 region increased latencies 27m

Started Aug 13, 2026, 06:26 PM UTC· resolved Aug 13, 2026, 06:53 PM UTC

  1. monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 06:26 PM UTC

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

  2. resolved Aug 13, 2026, 06:53 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 13, 2026 Regional outage - elevated response times on some calls 1h 49m

Started Aug 13, 2026, 05:16 AM UTC· resolved Aug 13, 2026, 07:05 AM UTC

  1. investigating Aug 13, 2026, 05:16 AM UTC

    This is a minor issue isolated to a portion of our US infrastructure. We have isolated the problem and are working to restore api to full serving capacity

  2. monitoring Aug 13, 2026, 05:56 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Aug 13, 2026, 07:05 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major August 4, 2026 Flux 3 Launch Traffic 17h 43m

Started Aug 04, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC· resolved Aug 05, 2026, 03:44 PM UTC

  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!

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Notice July 21, 2026 US3 cluster intermittent latency increase 5h 8m

Started Jul 21, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC· resolved Jul 21, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

  1. identified Jul 21, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

    US3 has issues due to the 3d party experiencing service degradation.

  2. monitoring Jul 21, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

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

  3. identified Jul 21, 2026, 02:02 PM UTC

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

  4. monitoring Jul 21, 2026, 03:03 PM UTC

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

  5. resolved Jul 21, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice June 18, 2026 High demand causing degraded performance in some regions –

Started Jun 18, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC· resolved Jun 18, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC

  1. resolved Jun 18, 2026, 04:06 PM UTC

    Large increase in traffic to our services is causing delays in image generation. We are working to balance traffic and bring down the time it takes to receive you images!

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Minor May 6, 2026 High Latency 3h 23m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 8 more

Started May 06, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC· resolved May 06, 2026, 06:52 PM UTC

  1. investigating May 06, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC

    We're experiencing higher latency on our EU2 cluster. We're investigating the root cause.

  2. investigating May 06, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring May 06, 2026, 05:44 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved May 06, 2026, 06:52 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice May 4, 2026 Elevated error rates 1h 23m

Started May 04, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC· resolved May 04, 2026, 01:41 PM UTC

  1. identified May 04, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

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

  2. resolved May 04, 2026, 01:41 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice April 28, 2026 EU region increased error rates in one of the clusters 12h 6m

Started Apr 28, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC· resolved Apr 29, 2026, 03:14 AM UTC

  1. identified Apr 28, 2026, 03:07 PM UTC

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

  2. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 07:47 PM UTC

    Third party provider restoring systems after power outage.

  3. resolved Apr 29, 2026, 03:14 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical April 22, 2026 Klein endpoint error rate 26m FLUX.2 [klein]

Started Apr 22, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC· resolved Apr 22, 2026, 05:56 PM UTC

  1. investigating Apr 22, 2026, 05:29 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved Apr 22, 2026, 05:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major April 13, 2026 Moderation Outage - Increased api failures 32m

Started Apr 13, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC· resolved Apr 13, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC

  1. monitoring Apr 13, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

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

  2. resolved Apr 14, 2026, 03:12 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major April 9, 2026 Increased error rate for /v1/flux-kontext-max 1d 2h FLUX.1 Kontext [max]

Started Apr 09, 2026, 03:52 PM UTC· resolved Apr 10, 2026, 06:09 PM UTC

  1. identified Apr 09, 2026, 03:52 PM UTC

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

  2. monitoring Apr 10, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

    The error rate is small, we implemented several fixes to mitigate and work on the major update to resolve the issue.

  3. resolved Apr 10, 2026, 06:09 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice April 7, 2026 500 error rates increase 1h 12m

Started Apr 07, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC· resolved Apr 07, 2026, 05:22 PM UTC

  1. identified Apr 07, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

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

  2. resolved Apr 07, 2026, 05:22 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor April 1, 2026 Image Generation Failures (Internal Error) 1h 32m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 7 more

Started Apr 01, 2026, 08:32 PM UTC· resolved Apr 01, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

  1. identified Apr 01, 2026, 08:32 PM UTC

    Image generation is experience internal errors, issue has been identified and fix is underway

  2. monitoring Apr 01, 2026, 09:02 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Apr 01, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice March 31, 2026 Latency increase 10h 45m

Started Mar 31, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC· resolved Mar 31, 2026, 07:27 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 31, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC

    We are experiencing above average load and working to mitigate this.

  2. resolved Mar 31, 2026, 07:27 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice March 26, 2026 EU region downstream provider issues 31m

Started Mar 26, 2026, 02:51 PM UTC· resolved Mar 26, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 26, 2026, 02:51 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved Mar 26, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor March 25, 2026 Flux Kontext Pro increased latencies 1h 53m FLUX .1 Kontext [pro]

Started Mar 25, 2026, 05:38 PM UTC· resolved Mar 25, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 25, 2026, 05:38 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 07:32 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice March 24, 2026 EU cluster increased error rates 1d

Started Mar 24, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC· resolved Mar 25, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC

  1. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 08:38 AM UTC

    Infrastructure maintenance operation in EU2 region caused temporary disruptions to request processing, resulting in elevated error rates for approximately two hours. The issue resolved automatically and all services are operating normally.

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Minor March 23, 2026 US api endpoint error rate 14h 44m

Started Mar 23, 2026, 08:10 AM UTC· resolved Mar 23, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 23, 2026, 08:10 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Mar 23, 2026, 09:15 AM UTC

    Noting that this should not affect customers using the primary global or regional endpoints noted in the Docs here: https://docs.bfl.ai/quick_start/generating_images#legacy-regional-endpoints.

  3. investigating Mar 23, 2026, 03:35 PM UTC

    The issue is now partially affecting traffic on the primary global/regional endpoints. We're focusing all capacity on resolving this.

  4. resolved Mar 23, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice March 20, 2026 Flux-2-pro increased latency 20m

Started Mar 20, 2026, 01:10 PM UTC· resolved Mar 20, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 20, 2026, 01:10 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. resolved Mar 20, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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