Changes / Databricks / ES-2292938
Databricks: Critical incident: ES-2292938
Summary
Databricks reported a critical outage from 2026-10-16 15:27 UTC to 2026-10-16 16:36 UTC (1 h 9 min). Customer impact was reported between 15:07 UTC and 15:49 UTC: errors, unavailable workspace UI features and workload failures affecting Serverless Compute, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL, Jobs, Notebooks, and Genie One.
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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 71%)Changed Detected Source: status.databricks.com (opens in new tab)
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What changed
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After: 2026-10-16 15:27 UTC
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After: AI/BI, Databricks Apps, Genie, Notebooks
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After: We are actively investigating an issue with the Databricks service. We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.
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After: Impact Summary Between 15:07 UTC and 15:49 UTC on October 16, 2026, customers using Databricks may have experienced degraded availability with Serverless Compute, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL, Jobs, Notebooks, and Genie One. Affected customers may have encountered errors, unavailable workspace UI features, or failures when starting or running workloads during this window. Symptoms • Genie One, the workspace app switcher, and other workspace UI features unavailable or returning errors • Serverless workloads, jobs, and SQL queries failing to start or returning errors • Notebooks and Databricks Apps failing to load or execute Current Status The issue has been mitigated and service is operational. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.
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After: Impact Summary Between 15:07 UTC and 15:49 UTC on October 16, 2026, customers using Databricks may have experienced degraded availability with Serverless Compute, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL, Jobs, Notebooks, and Genie One. Affected customers may have encountered errors, unavailable workspace UI features, or failures when starting or running workloads during this window. Symptoms • Genie One, the workspace app switcher, and other workspace UI features are unavailable or returning errors • Serverless workloads, jobs, and SQL queries failing to start or returning errors • Notebooks and Databricks Apps failing to load or execute Current Status The issue has been mitigated, and service is operational. Next Update This is the final update for this incident. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you require further details about this incident, please submit a support ticket or contact help@databricks.com.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Critical incident: ES-2292938 (this change) Databricks reported a critical outage from 2026-10-16 15:27 UTC to 2026-10-16 16:36 UTC (1 h 9 min). Customer impact was reported between 15:07 UTC and 15:49 UTC: errors, unavailable workspace UI features and workload failures affecting Serverless Compute, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL, Jobs, Notebooks, and Genie One. | Major incident |
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