# Black Forest Labs: Cluster Down - FLUX.2 [flex] Traffic Impacted

- Provider: [Black Forest Labs](https://outages.cc/blackforestlabs.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-08-19 11:15 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-08-19 18:57 UTC (lasted 7 h 42 min)
- Components: API (api.bfl.ai)
- Official update: https://stspg.io/lpnqlzs4x4gh

## Updates from Black Forest Labs

### resolved, 2026-08-19 18:57 UTC

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

### identified, 2026-08-19 11:15 UTC

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