Pinecone outage history

25 incidents from the official Pinecone status page, the oldest from 5 February 2026.

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October 2026 2

  1. , resolved

    [Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests

    Impact: minor

  2. , resolved after 1 h 9 min

    [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize

    Impact: major

September 2026 4

  1. , resolved after 8 min

    [Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency

    Impact: minor

  2. , resolved after 58 min

    [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests

    Impact: major

  3. , resolved after 11 h 7 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath

    Impact: major

  4. , resolved after 4 h 36 min

    5xx errors on some control plane operations

    Impact: major

August 2026 1

  1. , resolved after 21 min

    [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests

    Impact: major

July 2026 4

  1. , resolved after 30 min

    [SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces

    Impact: critical

  2. , resolved after 1 h 15 min

    [SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexes

    Impact: minor

  3. , resolved after 4 h 54 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces

    Impact: minor

  4. , resolved after 4 h 47 min

    [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexes

    Impact: major

June 2026 5

  1. , resolved after 8 h 22 min

    Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty results

    Impact: minor

  2. , resolved after 3 h 59 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Metrics tab in the console not showing graphs

  3. , resolved after 3 h 35 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes

    Impact: major

  4. , resolved after 2 h 44 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Read path operations for some indexes may experience elevated latency and timeouts

    Impact: minor

  5. , resolved after 27 min

    [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes

    Impact: minor

May 2026 4

  1. , resolved after 1 h 18 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.

    Impact: major

  2. , resolved after 1 h 1 min

    [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexes

    Impact: major

  3. , resolved after 27 min

    [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes

    Impact: major

  4. , resolved after 20 min

    Pinecone Console loading slowly for some users

    Impact: minor

March 2026 3

  1. , resolved after 1 h 3 min

    [GCP][europe-west4] Errors for upsert operations on some indexes

    Impact: major

  2. , resolved after 1 h 4 min

    [AWS][us-east-1] Prometheus metrics are unavailable through the Pinecone console or the metric proxy

    Impact: minor

  3. , resolved after 1 h 10 min

    [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some indexes

    Impact: major

February 2026 2

  1. , resolved after 2 h 38 min

    [GCP][us-central1][europe-west4] Errors on some read operations

    Impact: major

  2. , resolved after 11 h 1 min

    [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces

    Impact: minor