# Pinecone: Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes

> Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes. Detected 2026-11-10 by Rewindex: what changed on Pinecone’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714
Last updated: 2026-11-10T17:34:07Z

**Summary:** _summary pending_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: major (vendor)
- Changed: 2026-11-10 17:29 UTC · Detected: 2026-11-10 17:34 UTC
- [Source: https://status.pinecone.io/incidents/t1zm9dg0wc2d](https://status.pinecone.io/incidents/t1zm9dg0wc2d)
- [Company: Pinecone](https://rewindex.com/company/pinecone.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:35/t1zm9dg0wc2d@57159538187f
- Change 1 of 2 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [\[Serverless\]\[GCP\]\[us-central1\] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes](https://rewindex.com/company/pinecone/incidents/t1zm9dg0wc2d.md)
## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes
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**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ investigating
```

**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-11-10 17:29 UTC
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**5. Added: Affected components**

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+ GCP us-central1, Serverless Indexes - GCP us-central1
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**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-11-10 16:50 UTC

```diff
+ We are currently investigating this issue.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-11-10 17:29 UTC | Major incident: \[Serverless\]\[GCP\]\[us-central1\] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes (this change) | major |
| 2026-11-10 19:03 UTC | [Incident updated: \[Serverless\]\[GCP\]\[us-central1\] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes](https://rewindex.com/change/rbede13abfe0664.md) |  |

Next: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/rbede13abfe0664.md) · All Pinecone changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/pinecone/changes.md)
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## Cite this

Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes on Pinecone’s status page, changed 2026-11-10 17:29 UTC (change 1 of 2).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714
- Citation: Pinecone, “Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes” (2026-11-10 17:29 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Pinecone: Major incident: ServerlessGCPus-central1 Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes (2026-11-10)](https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714)`


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/i0ae070c355e714.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/i0ae070c355e714 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-10T23:37:49.076Z