# dbt Labs: Incident silently edited: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA

**Summary:** dbt Labs edited its EMEA incident update to say affected metadata ingestion may leave some customers seeing out-of-date information in dbt Explorer, replacing the reference to delayed or outdated Catalog metadata. The update still links the issue to an ongoing GCP incident. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Part of an outage event

- [Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026: 19 vendors, 19 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-10-20-google-cloud-europe-west2)
- This incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +48 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
- Evidence: “…as been resolved. Between about 06:00 and 12:10 UTC, an incident with our cloud provider (GCP) affected services in EMEA. Some customers saw stuck or delayed job runs, failed run cancellations, delaye…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud europe-west2<br/>posted 06:08 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before Google Cloud did<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>JFrog"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Aiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud, dbt Labs"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>MongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB, ClickHouse Cloud"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>2 vendors, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Grafana Cloud, Confluent"]:::blames
  root --> later
  me["dbt Labs (this incident)<br/>posted +48 min"]:::me
  h1 --- 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: Silent edit · Label: not classified yet
- Changed: 2026-10-20 10:33 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 10:33 UTC
- [Source: https://status.getdbt.com/incidents/01M5C1G9A94RM2V1D864GCFHRP](https://status.getdbt.com/incidents/01M5C1G9A94RM2V1D864GCFHRP)
- [Company: dbt Labs](https://rewindex.com/company/dbt-labs.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:143/01M5C1G9A94RM2V1D864GCFHRP@44f95021b517 → after incident\_version:143/01M5C1G9A94RM2V1D864GCFHRP@7d1fc113af55
- Change 4 of 6 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/company/dbt-labs/incidents/01M5C1G9A94RM2V1D864GCFHRP.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Update** (identified) · 2026-10-20 10:21 UTC

```diff
  …ingestion in EMEA is now also affected, so
- metadata in Catalog may be delayed or out of date.
+ some customers may see out-of-date information in dbt Explorer.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 08:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/change/rdc63a8f536269f.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 08:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/change/r9c19f36a59c272.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 10:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/change/r71aff35efc72c5.md) |  |
| 2026-10-20 10:33 UTC | Incident silently edited: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA (this change) |  |
| 2026-10-20 12:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/change/rc0bd24e249be1e.md) |  |
| 2026-10-20 15:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Delayed and stuck job runs in EMEA](https://rewindex.com/change/r72e87b7b3eb254.md) |  |

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r45d742a70276e4 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r45d742a70276e4.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r45d742a70276e4 · Generated 2026-10-20T23:36:03.038Z