Pinecone outage, 7 October 2026

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

Started
Resolved
7 Oct 2026, 21:49 UTC (after 1 h 9 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
Index Management

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7 Oct 2026, 21:49 UTC

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