Snowflake outage, 16 October 2026
INC20000287
- Started
- Resolved
- 16 Oct 2026, 01:43 UTC (after 29 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Databases, Tables, and Views, Applications
Last update from Snowflake
Current status: We've monitored the environment and confirmed that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have experienced intermittent delays when loading Snowsight or running queries, and some queries may have failed. Workaround: There were no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 23:50 UTC October 15, 2026 Incident end time: 00:40 UTC October 16, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A routine software update caused a large number of background setup operations to run at the same time, w...
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