Changes / Pinecone / [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
Pinecone: Major incident: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
Summary
Pinecone reported a major incident affecting Serverless Indexes in GCP us-central1, with 5xx errors on some read and write requests. It started at 2026-08-25 15:50 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-25 16:11 UTC, lasting 21 min; Pinecone stated that a fix was implemented.
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What changed
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After: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
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After: major
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After: resolved
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After: 2026-08-25 15:50 UTC
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After: 2026-08-25 16:11 UTC
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After: GCP us-central1, Serverless Indexes - GCP us-central1
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After: We are currently investigating this issue.
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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After: This incident has been resolved.
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History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Kind |
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| Major incident: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests (this change) Pinecone reported a major incident affecting Serverless Indexes in GCP us-central1, with 5xx errors on some read and write requests. It started at 2026-08-25 15:50 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-25 16:11 UTC, lasting 21 min; Pinecone stated that a fix was implemented. | Major incident |