Notion's AI Meeting Notes feature stopped starting transcription for 14 minutes on 29 September 2026. The fault sat with Notion's own service, not with your setup.
Started
13:30 UTC
Duration
Lasted 14m
Source
IsDown
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What happened?
Notion opened a single incident at 13:30 UTC titled "AI Meeting Notes transcription may not start". The only update on record is the investigating note posted at that same timestamp: Notion said it was looking into reports that users could not start transcription in AI Meeting Notes, and that it would share more as it learned more. No further update was filed. The incident closed out at 14 minutes, so either the problem resolved quickly or Notion simply stopped posting before confirming a fix, the record does not say which. No components are listed as affected on Notion's status page for this incident. No user reports were filed during the window, so there is no independent account of how the transcription failure actually looked from your side, such as a spinner that never started or an error on the record button. This was a narrow, single-feature failure, not a platform-wide Notion outage. Over the past 90 days Notion has logged 26 incidents with a median duration of 2 hours 1 minute, so this one closed well under its usual pace. Across all time Notion averages 4.2 incidents a month from 318 logged incidents, putting this one firmly within its normal pattern of short, feature-specific hiccups.
Learning
Notion's status page is the only record of this incident, and it comes from one short update with no resolution note attached, so you are relying entirely on Notion's own account of what happened and when it stopped. A feature like AI Meeting Notes transcription depends on backend processing that sits behind Notion's main app, so your workspace itself can load fine while a specific function like transcription fails silently in the background. That is exactly the kind of fault a basic uptime check on your own product would never catch, because your product's front end is not where the break occurred. Over 30 days UptimeRobot's own monitoring recorded 11 incidents for Notion with a median duration of 2h 42m, all resolved, which gives a external view independent of what Notion chooses to publish. Your monitoring covers your half, UptimeRobot now watches the provider's half too, so next time you know which side broke without guessing.
