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Elastic Cloud: Major incident: Connection issue to Kibana via the Cloud UI SSO

Summary

Elastic Cloud reported a major outage affecting Kibana connections through the Cloud UI via SAML SSO for PrivateLink customers only. It started at 2026-04-09 15:37 UTC and was resolved at 2026-04-10 11:51 UTC, lasting 20 h 14 min; a fix was rolled out at 04-09 19:50 UTC, with no further customer impact expected.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Connection issue to Kibana via the Cloud UI SSO
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After: resolved
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After: 2026-04-09 15:37 UTC
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After: 2026-04-10 11:51 UTC
AddedUpdateinvestigating#6
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After: We are aware of an issue when connecting to Kibana through the Elastic Cloud UI via SAML SSO, impacting hosted Cloud deployments. Our team is actively investigating. We will post an update to this status within the next hour.
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We have identified that only PrivateLink customers are impacted and no other Hosted Cloud Deployments should see any issues.
AddedUpdateinvestigating#8
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After: We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. We will update again in 3 hours or earlier.
AddedUpdateinvestigating#9
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After: We have rolled out the fix and there should be no more customer impact
AddedUpdateresolved#10
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After: We have confirmed no further impact from this incident, and are now marking it as resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Connection issue to Kibana via the Cloud UI SSO (this change)
Elastic Cloud reported a major outage affecting Kibana connections through the Cloud UI via SAML SSO for PrivateLink customers only. It started at 2026-04-09 15:37 UTC and was resolved at 2026-04-10 11:51 UTC, lasting 20 h 14 min; a fix was rolled out at 04-09 19:50 UTC, with no further customer impact expected.
Major incident

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