Grafana Cloud outage, 12 October 2026

Elevated Errors Ingesting Metrics in AWS US East (VA)

Started
Resolved
12 Oct 2026, 16:42 UTC (after 6 h 56 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3

Last update from Grafana Cloud

From 09:45 UTC on 2026-10-12, customers in AWS US East (VA) experienced failed or delayed metric writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, which may have also affected Frontend Observability and Synthetic Monitoring data in that region. This has been fully resolved and all services are operating normally again.

12 Oct 2026, 16:42 UTC

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