# Orb: Major incident: Elevated errors across API endpoints

**Summary:** _summary pending_
## Part of an outage event

- [Google Cloud outage, Jun 12, 2025: 101 vendors, 107 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2025-06-12-google-cloud)
- This incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +1 h 28 min vs the first vendor naming Google Cloud)
- Evidence: “…:13. This is due to an influx of traffic, believed to be downstream effects from a global GCP outage. We executed immediate mitigations, have observed recovery, and will continue to monitor errors. Th…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>29 vendors, 28 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Pinecone, Northflank, imgix +26"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>12 vendors, 11 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Smartsheet, Daily, Confluent +9"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Zilliz"]:::blames
  root --> later
  p0["Firebase<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  root -.-> p0
  k0["Codeium, Windsurf<br/>+13 min"]:::hop2
  p0 -->|"blamed Firebase"| k0
  p1["Anthropic<br/>posted +28 min, did not name Google Cloud"]:::timing
  root -.-> p1
  k1["GitHub, GitHub Copilot<br/>+24 min"]:::hop2
  p1 -->|"blamed Anthropic"| k1
  p2["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  root -.-> p2
  k2["Doppler, Jupyter (Anaconda), Socket +4<br/>+35 min to +3 h 41 min"]:::hop2
  p2 -->|"blamed Cloudflare"| k2
  me["Orb (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h 28 min"]:::me
  h4 --- me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

- Kind: Major incident · Label: major (vendor)
- Changed: 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-19 18:53 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/54qgfx94rb2s](https://stspg.io/54qgfx94rb2s)
- [Company: Orb](https://rewindex.com/company/orb.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:752/mcrxfrf3f594@e6d8ac4e1ab8
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Elevated errors across API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/company/orb/incidents/mcrxfrf3f594.md)
## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

```diff
+ Elevated errors across API endpoints
```

**2. Added: Impact**

```diff
+ major
```

**3. Added: Status**

```diff
+ resolved
```

**4. Added: Start time**

```diff
+ 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC
```

**5. Added: Resolved time**

```diff
+ 2025-06-12 19:52 UTC
```

**6. Added: Affected components**

```diff
+ Analytics, API - Analytics, API - Reads, API - Writes, Reads, Writes
```

**7. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC

```diff
+ API read and analytic endpoints experienced high rates of API failures between 18:52 - 19:13. This is due to an influx of traffic, believed to be downstream effects from a global GCP outage. We executed immediate mitigations, have observed recovery, and will continue to monitor errors.
```

**8. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2025-06-12 19:39 UTC

```diff
+ We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
```

**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2025-06-12 19:52 UTC

```diff
+ This incident has been resolved.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC | Major incident: Elevated errors across API endpoints (this change) | major |

All Orb changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/orb/changes.md)
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