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Pinecone: Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write operations

Summary

Pinecone reported a major incident causing 5xx errors on some read and write operations for Serverless Indexes in GCP us-central1, starting 2025-10-23 17:32 UTC. A fix was implemented at 17:42 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-10-23 18:23 UTC after 51 min.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 99%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write operations (this change)
Pinecone reported a major incident causing 5xx errors on some read and write operations for Serverless Indexes in GCP us-central1, starting 2025-10-23 17:32 UTC. A fix was implemented at 17:42 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-10-23 18:23 UTC after 51 min.
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