# CockroachDB: Major incident: Cloud Latency, Delays, Connection Issues

**Summary:** CockroachDB Basic/Standard experienced major latency, delays, and connection issues affecting us-central-1, asia-east-1 (later listed as us-central1, asia-east1), europe-west4-b, and us-central1-b from 2026-09-01 15:36 UTC to 2026-09-01 19:45 UTC (4 h 8 min). CockroachDB attributed the disruption to Google Cloud networking outages; network-level mitigation restored infrastructure, and all services were confirmed restored. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: degradation (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-09-01 15:36 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/j9yjvhm6p9c8](https://stspg.io/j9yjvhm6p9c8)
- [Company: CockroachDB](https://rewindex.com/company/cockroachdb.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:138/xp0bzmd7rrlc@57af6c70f5cb
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Cloud Latency, Delays, Connection Issues
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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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+ 2026-09-01 15:36 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-09-01 19:45 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ CockroachDB Basic/Standard
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-09-01 15:36 UTC

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+ Google Cloud is experiencing networking outages which is affecting Cockroach Cloud customers. Cockroach Cloud customers may experience heightened latency, delays, or connection issues. Our teams are aware and fully engaged on this incident.  Known current Impacts:  us-central-1, asia-east-1
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**8. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-09-01 15:39 UTC

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+ Google Cloud is experiencing networking outages which is affecting Cockroach Cloud customers. Cockroach Cloud customers may experience heightened latency, delays, or connection issues. Our teams are aware and fully engaged on this incident.  Known current Impacts:  us-central-1, asia-east-1
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**9. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-09-01 16:04 UTC

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+ We are still monitoring the situation, seeing some improvement over the last 15 minutes, but not fully resolved. Known current Impacts:  us-central1, asia-east1, europe-west4-b
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**10. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-09-01 16:13 UTC

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+ Google is now reporting that us-central1 and asia-east1 are both resolved, however europe-west4-b is still actively impacted. Our internal teams are confirming no further errors in the last 15 minutes for us-central1 and asia-east1 regions. Known current Impacts:  europe-west4-b
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**11. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-09-01 16:37 UTC

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+ We are learning that Google is reporting us-central1-b is also impacted and experiencing degradation. Following network-level mitigation efforts, the underlying network infrastructure has fully recovered. Google Product engineering teams across Cloud are currently validating the recovery status of individual services.
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**12. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-09-01 19:45 UTC

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+ Google impacts are now reported as fully resolved. Internal teams have confirmed this report. All services are restored. Should you need further help, please reach out and file a ticket with Support.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-01 15:36 UTC | Major incident: Cloud Latency, Delays, Connection Issues (this change) | degradation |

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