Pinecone outage, 1 September 2026

5xx errors on some control plane operations

Started
Resolved
1 Sept 2026, 19:40 UTC (after 4 h 36 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
Console, Index Management, Assistant

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1 Sept 2026, 19:40 UTC

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

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

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

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