NovelAI incident

Image generation instability

Resolved after 1 day 18 hours, affecting Image Generation and NovelAI Explore (NovelAI Explore — Coreweave), on August 9, 2026.

monitoring Aug 09, 2026, 04:20 PM UTC

We have identified the root cause of the issue and we're deploying a bugfix version to V4.5 Full to prevent this from happening.

Started
Aug 09, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 10, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC
Duration
1d 18h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 09, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

Affected components

Image GenerationNovelAI Explore (NovelAI Explore — Coreweave)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 09, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

    We're aware of issues affecting the servers and are actively looking into the cause. We will keep you updated and thank you for your patience in the meantime.

  2. identified Aug 09, 2026, 01:05 AM UTC

    We identified this as an issue which made the servers running V4.5 Full to unexpectedly restart. They have restarted now and generation speed is recovering. We continue to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Aug 09, 2026, 04:20 PM UTC

    We have identified the root cause of the issue and we're deploying a bugfix version to V4.5 Full to prevent this from happening.

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