Black Forest Labs Outage History
Black Forest Labs is up right nowPingoru has recorded 50 incidents for Black Forest Labs: 46 in the last 12 months and 9 in the last 90 days.
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Notice March 18, 2026 Increased latency and error rates –
Started Mar 18, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC· resolved Mar 18, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC
- resolved Mar 18, 2026, 01:30 PM UTC
Temporary disruption with a downstream provider in the moderation chain. The issue is resolved as the downstream service recovered.
Notice March 17, 2026 Cluster component outage caused increased error rates and latency. –
Started Mar 17, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC· resolved Mar 17, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC
- resolved Mar 18, 2026, 01:26 PM UTC
A critical component in one regional cluster was failing which resulted in increased latency and error rates. A fix has been deployed to prevent this issue in the future.
Notice March 13, 2026 flux-kontext-v2-3k issues in US region 13m
Started Mar 13, 2026, 07:46 AM UTC· resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
- investigating Mar 13, 2026, 07:46 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- resolved Mar 13, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Notice March 5, 2026 Increased latency on Flux 2 preview 29m
Started Mar 05, 2026, 09:29 AM UTC· resolved Mar 05, 2026, 09:58 AM UTC
- investigating Mar 05, 2026, 09:29 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- resolved Mar 05, 2026, 09:58 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Notice February 24, 2026 Increased latency in EU2 2h 45m
Started Feb 24, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC· resolved Feb 24, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC
We're investigating an increase in latency in a single EU cluster, EU2, for a few of our models.
- monitoring Feb 24, 2026, 10:56 AM UTC
We've identified the issue and implemented a fix, latency is returning to normal and we'll keep monitoring.
- resolved Feb 24, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Minor February 23, 2026 Long Response Times 4h 31m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Feb 23, 2026, 06:25 PM UTC· resolved Feb 23, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC
- investigating Feb 23, 2026, 06:25 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue with some generations taking a longer amount of time than usual
- resolved Feb 23, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Notice February 23, 2026 Increased 500x error rate 26m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Feb 23, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC· resolved Feb 23, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC
- investigating Feb 23, 2026, 10:23 AM UTC
Customers experience error 500 on some endpoints. We are looking into it.
- resolved Feb 23, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Notice January 12, 2026 Some requests can return empty results 7h 38m
Started Jan 12, 2026, 08:47 AM UTC· resolved Jan 12, 2026, 04:26 PM UTC
- investigating Jan 12, 2026, 08:47 AM UTC
Issue is identified and we are working on a fix. This affects only Flux.2.
- investigating Jan 12, 2026, 12:28 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring Jan 12, 2026, 12:29 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Jan 12, 2026, 04:26 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Major December 26, 2025 Increased error rate on Flux2 endpoint 2h 58m
Started Dec 26, 2025, 01:25 PM UTC· resolved Dec 26, 2025, 04:23 PM UTC
- investigating Dec 26, 2025, 01:25 PM UTC
We are currently investigating the issue.
- identified Dec 26, 2025, 02:44 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and fix is being worked on.
- monitoring Dec 26, 2025, 03:07 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Dec 26, 2025, 04:23 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Major December 17, 2025 Auth + Credit Issues 6h 58m
Started Dec 17, 2025, 02:23 PM UTC· resolved Dec 17, 2025, 09:22 PM UTC
- investigating Dec 17, 2025, 02:23 PM UTC
We are encountering some authentication issues relating to Playground and Google login.
- investigating Dec 17, 2025, 02:57 PM UTC
We noted that purchasing new credits is also encountering some issues, currently investigating.
- investigating Dec 17, 2025, 03:04 PM UTC
Auth issues are resolved, still investigating credits purchase.
- investigating Dec 17, 2025, 03:10 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- investigating Dec 17, 2025, 06:36 PM UTC
We are also noted an increase in 403s for certain older endpoints, we've identified the issue and are deploying a fix.
- resolved Dec 17, 2025, 09:22 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Notice December 5, 2025 Certain BFL services temporarily unavailable 14m
Started Dec 05, 2025, 09:12 AM UTC· resolved Dec 05, 2025, 09:27 AM UTC
- investigating Dec 05, 2025, 09:12 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing elevated error rates on BFL Playground, Auth and Dashboard endpoints coming from one of our service providers that has a significant outage. We are investigating our options for mitigation. Thank you for your patience!
- resolved Dec 05, 2025, 09:27 AM UTC
The Incident has been resolved on the cloud provider side, all systems operational.
Minor December 3, 2025 429 errors on some clusters 4h 57m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Dec 03, 2025, 04:14 AM UTC· resolved Dec 03, 2025, 09:12 AM UTC
- investigating Dec 03, 2025, 04:14 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue triggering 429 errors in some clusters.
- monitoring Dec 03, 2025, 04:19 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring now. You should be able to use the different endpoints again.
- investigating Dec 03, 2025, 05:02 AM UTC
Investigating the same issue again
- identified Dec 03, 2025, 07:18 AM UTC
We have resolved one issue, and are working on resolving another one only applying to some customers.
- monitoring Dec 03, 2025, 07:25 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the situation
- resolved Dec 03, 2025, 09:12 AM UTC
Incident has been resolved.
Minor November 25, 2025 US2 Bad Gateway / Unresponsive 1h 54m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Nov 25, 2025, 04:42 AM UTC· resolved Nov 25, 2025, 06:37 AM UTC
- investigating Nov 25, 2025, 04:42 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue related to the `us2` cluster returning errors in some cases.
- investigating Nov 25, 2025, 04:42 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Nov 25, 2025, 05:12 AM UTC
We have identified the issue and are working on a fix.
- resolved Nov 25, 2025, 06:37 AM UTC
The incident has now been resolved.
Minor November 20, 2025 Elevated Latency 16h 43m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra, FLUX.1 Fill [pro], FLUX .1 Kontext [pro] and 1 more
Started Nov 20, 2025, 08:53 PM UTC· resolved Nov 21, 2025, 01:36 PM UTC
- investigating Nov 20, 2025, 08:53 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue with elevated latency.
- investigating Nov 20, 2025, 08:54 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring Nov 21, 2025, 08:04 AM UTC
A fix has been put in place, we are monitoring.
- resolved Nov 21, 2025, 01:36 PM UTC
The issue has been resolved.
Minor November 18, 2025 Latency increase on some endpoints 1h 57m FLUX .1 Kontext [pro], FLUX.1 Kontext [max]
Started Nov 18, 2025, 06:06 PM UTC· resolved Nov 18, 2025, 08:04 PM UTC
- investigating Nov 18, 2025, 06:06 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue on FLUX.1 Kontext about a latency increase.
- monitoring Nov 18, 2025, 08:04 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring
- resolved Nov 18, 2025, 08:04 PM UTC
The incident has been resolved now.
Minor November 17, 2025 Increase latency 10m FLUX 1.1 [pro]
Started Nov 17, 2025, 03:56 PM UTC· resolved Nov 17, 2025, 04:07 PM UTC
- investigating Nov 17, 2025, 03:56 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue with FLUX 1.1 [pro]
- investigating Nov 17, 2025, 03:57 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved Nov 17, 2025, 04:07 PM UTC
The incident is now resolved.
Major November 6, 2025 Kontext Max slow down 3h 33m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Nov 06, 2025, 07:15 AM UTC· resolved Nov 06, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC
- investigating Nov 06, 2025, 07:15 AM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- investigating Nov 06, 2025, 07:23 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- monitoring Nov 06, 2025, 07:54 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we're monitoring the situation
- resolved Nov 06, 2025, 10:48 AM UTC
The incident has been resolved
Minor November 4, 2025 Increase Latency on our clusters 1h 8m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Nov 04, 2025, 08:55 PM UTC· resolved Nov 04, 2025, 10:04 PM UTC
- investigating Nov 04, 2025, 08:55 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an latency increase issue on our clusters.
- resolved Nov 04, 2025, 10:04 PM UTC
The incident has been resolved
Critical October 29, 2025 Global Outage 1d 18h FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Oct 29, 2025, 04:01 PM UTC· resolved Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 AM UTC
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 04:01 PM UTC
Azure is currently experience issues resulting in a full outage in our image generation services. We are awaiting a status update from them.
- identified Oct 29, 2025, 07:04 PM UTC
We have implemented a mitigation to the problem. Please use regional endpoints for now: `https://api.eu2.bfl.ai` and `https://api.eu4.bfl.ai/`
- monitoring Oct 29, 2025, 08:25 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. DNS cache needs to be flushed. Regional endpoints: api.us.bfl.ai and api.eu.bfl.ai are not functional at the moment.
- monitoring Oct 30, 2025, 12:28 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. Regional endpoints are also now operational: `api.eu.bfl.ai`, and `api.us.bfl.ai`
- monitoring Oct 30, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented. Please use the global endpoint: https://api.bfl.ai. Regional endpoints are also now operational: `api.eu.bfl.ai`, and `api.us.bfl.ai` As part of our cloud-outage mitigation, we’ve temporarily moved delivery to the following Azure Blob endpoints. Please whitelist them: - *.blob.core.windows.net We intend to switch back to our standard domains (delivery.*.bfl.ai and delivery-*.bfl.ai) as soon as it’s viable. We recommend keeping those domains whitelisted as well, if they aren’t already. Note: there’s a difference between delivery.*.bfl.ai and delivery-*.bfl.ai. Please ensure both patterns are allowed.
- identified Oct 31, 2025, 10:22 AM UTC
Apologies, false status update
- resolved Oct 31, 2025, 10:24 AM UTC
Our third party had resolved their issue be we kept monitoring closely, we trust the stability now.
Minor October 28, 2025 Increased Latency of US1 Cluster 40m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 6 more
Started Oct 28, 2025, 06:16 PM UTC· resolved Oct 28, 2025, 06:56 PM UTC
- investigating Oct 28, 2025, 06:16 PM UTC
We have seen an increase in latency on the US1 cluster and are investigating.
- resolved Oct 28, 2025, 06:56 PM UTC
We identified and resolved the issue.
Minor October 22, 2025 US1 Slowdown 1h 28m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 6 more
Started Oct 22, 2025, 08:19 AM UTC· resolved Oct 22, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC
- identified Oct 22, 2025, 08:19 AM UTC
Our US1 cluster is experiencing some scaling issue, resulting in some requests taking longer to process. We're working on a fix.
- monitoring Oct 22, 2025, 08:54 AM UTC
Issue has been brought under control, we're monitoring the fix.
- resolved Oct 22, 2025, 09:47 AM UTC
Scaling is stable again.
Minor October 9, 2025 Intermittent Connection Issues 6h 40m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 6 more
Started Oct 09, 2025, 12:06 PM UTC· resolved Oct 09, 2025, 06:46 PM UTC
- identified Oct 09, 2025, 12:06 PM UTC
Due to a critical third party dependency we rely on for load balancing experiencing issues, customers within certain regions are experiencing an increase in latency and timeouts.
- resolved Oct 09, 2025, 06:46 PM UTC
The third party has declared their incident resolved.
Notice September 9, 2025 Cluster outage leading to enhanced latency 1h 6m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 6 more
Started Sep 09, 2025, 09:52 PM UTC· resolved Sep 09, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC
- monitoring Sep 09, 2025, 09:52 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring Sep 09, 2025, 09:53 PM UTC
A critical external dependency outage has been identified, and triaged
- monitoring Sep 09, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Sep 09, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC
The critical external dependency has become stable again.
Critical September 8, 2025 Degraded performance 11h 3m FLUX 1.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [pro], FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra and 5 more
Started Sep 08, 2025, 09:40 AM UTC· resolved Sep 08, 2025, 08:43 PM UTC
- investigating Sep 08, 2025, 09:40 AM UTC
We are currently experience degraded performance, you may face higher latency or timeouts. We are working on it.
- investigating Sep 08, 2025, 11:20 AM UTC
We are still investigating the issue.
- investigating Sep 08, 2025, 01:14 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate the issue and are checking several potential root causes. Higher latency and occasional errors are still to be expected.
- investigating Sep 08, 2025, 01:54 PM UTC
We’ve narrowed the problem down to a single issue. Our team is working on a fix, and performance may still be degraded in the meantime. We’ll provide another update once the fix is deployed.
- monitoring Sep 08, 2025, 04:03 PM UTC
We have identified the issue, implemented a fix and are now monitoring the results
- resolved Sep 08, 2025, 08:43 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved now.