# Estuary: Major incident: Reporting, inferred schemas, and GCP-us-central1 c2 outage

**Summary:** Estuary reported a major outage affecting reporting and inferred schema updates system-wide, plus tasks on GCP: us-central1 c2, from 2026-10-15 07:48 UTC to 2026-10-15 09:33 UTC (1 h 45 min). A fix restored tasks and cleared reporting, task stats and inferred schema backlogs; Estuary expected no data loss or duplication. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-15 07:48 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://status.estuary.dev/incidents/01M4Z8H3RW7BYRQS4QJN0FFGKN](https://status.estuary.dev/incidents/01M4Z8H3RW7BYRQS4QJN0FFGKN)
- [Company: Estuary](https://rewindex.com/company/estuary.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:145/01M4Z8H3RW7BYRQS4QJN0FFGKN@575e49d94ece
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Reporting, inferred schemas, and GCP-us-central1 c2 outage
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-10-15 07:48 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-10-15 09:33 UTC
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**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-15 07:48 UTC

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+ An issue affecting GCP: us-central1 c2 tasks, as well as reporting is occurring, we are investigating and fixing now.
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-15 07:59 UTC

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+ This incident affects reporting, inferred schema updates system-wide, as well as tasks specifically on GCP: us-central1 c2.
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**8. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-10-15 08:15 UTC

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+ We believe we've identified the root cause and are beginning remediation
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**9. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-10-15 08:30 UTC

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+ A fix is in place and tasks on GCP us-central1 c2 are recovering. They'll resume from where they stopped, and we don't expect any data loss or duplication. Reporting, task stats and inferred schemas are catching up on all data planes.
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**10. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-10-15 08:53 UTC

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+ Error rates are continuing to drop on GCP us-central1 c2 and tasks are resuming normally. We’re continuing to monitor while reporting, task stats and inferred schemas finish catching up.
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**11. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-15 09:33 UTC

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+ This incident is resolved. All tasks on GCP us-central1 c2 are running normally and reporting, task stats and inferred schemas have caught up.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-15 07:48 UTC | Major incident: Reporting, inferred schemas, and GCP-us-central1 c2 outage (this change) | outage |

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