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Grafana Cloud: Major incident: Elevated Trace Ingestion Latency and Errors for Grafana Cloud Traces in AWS Germany

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Summary

Grafana Cloud reported a major incident affecting Grafana Cloud Traces ingestion in AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2, with elevated latency, intermittent errors, delayed ingestion and failed trace writes. It started at 2026-10-23 09:31 UTC and was still open when archived, open for 0 min at the last update; investigation was ongoing.

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What changed

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AddedTitle#1
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After: Elevated Trace Ingestion Latency and Errors for Grafana Cloud Traces in AWS Germany
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
Before: not present
After: investigating
AddedStart time#4
Before: not present
After: 2026-10-23 09:31 UTC
AddedAffected components#5
Before: not present
After: AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2, AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2: Ingestion, OpenTelemetry Ingest Endpoint - AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2, Traces - AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2: Ingestion
AddedUpdateinvestigating#6
Before: not present
After: We are investigating elevated latency and intermittent errors when ingesting traces for Grafana Cloud Traces in AWS Germany. Customers may see delayed trace ingestion and failed trace writes. Next update by 10:30 UTC.

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