Grammarly was down — here's what we know about the outage

· tom's guide

2024-11-08T19:28:01.131Z

And so it began

(Image credit: Grammarly)

The first reports of Grammarly going down came in around 11:30 PM Eastern. We saw a sudden rise in user reports on Down Detector, with the number jumping for the baseline of zero all the way to around 150. For a smaller service, this is a huge jump.

When anyone tries to use Grammarly to check their writing, they're greeted with loading feedback and an eventual error that says "Text checking is temporarily unavailable.