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Elastic Cloud: Major incident: Serverless project creation delayed or failing

Summary

Elastic Cloud reported a major outage delaying or failing Serverless project creation and settings changes through the Cloud UI or API; running projects continued operating normally. It started at 2026-08-13 03:57 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-13 08:40 UTC, lasting 4 h 42 min. A fix was deployed by 06:04 UTC; no cause was stated.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 95%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Serverless project creation delayed or failing
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-08-13 03:57 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2026-08-13 08:40 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Elastic Cloud Serverless
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are investigating failures with Serverless project creation.
AddedUpdateinvestigating#8
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After: We're currently investigating an issue affecting Serverless project creation and modifications. You may experience delays or failures when creating new projects or updating existing project settings. What's affected: - Creating new Serverless projects - Modifying project settings in the Cloud UI or over the API What's not affected: - Running Serverless projects continue to operate normally - Existing project workloads are unimpacted We'll provide an update within 2 hours, or sooner if the situation changes.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: We've identified and resolved the issue affecting Serverless project creation and modifications. Our fix has been deployed, and all services are operating normally. Current status: - Creating and modifying Serverless projects is fully operational - All systems are performing as expected We're continuing to monitor closely for any recurrence.
AddedUpdateresolved#10
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After: We've resolved the issue affecting Serverless project creation and modifications. All systems are now operating normally.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Serverless project creation delayed or failing (this change)
Elastic Cloud reported a major outage delaying or failing Serverless project creation and settings changes through the Cloud UI or API; running projects continued operating normally. It started at 2026-08-13 03:57 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-13 08:40 UTC, lasting 4 h 42 min. A fix was deployed by 06:04 UTC; no cause was stated.
Major incident

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