Pinecone outage, 4 March 2026

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

Started
Resolved
4 Mar 2026, 22:16 UTC (after 1 h 10 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
GCP us-central1

Last update from Pinecone

This incident has been resolved.

4 Mar 2026, 22:16 UTC

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Other Pinecone incidents

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

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

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

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

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

  6. 5xx errors on some control plane operations

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

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

All recorded Pinecone incidents