# Looker: Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

> Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.. Detected 2026-11-05 by Rewindex: what changed on Looker’s status page, with the before/after diff.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r72cda4a1ae9631
Last updated: 2026-11-05T06:23:11Z

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

- [Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026: 13 vendors, 13 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-10-20-google-cloud-europe-west2)
- This incident is the root of the event (the provider’s own post). (root, posted +0 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud europe-west2<br/>posted 06:00 UTC"]:::root
  h1["Within an hour<br/>5 vendors, 5 blamed Google Cloud<br/>JFrog, Aiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud +1"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>3 vendors, 3 blamed Google Cloud<br/>MongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>3 vendors, 2 blamed Google Cloud<br/>ClickHouse Cloud, Grafana Cloud, Confluent"]:::blames
  root --> later
  class root 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: Wording only (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917)
- Changed: 2026-11-05 06:23 UTC · Detected: 2026-11-05 06:23 UTC
- [Source: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj](https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj)
- [Company: Looker](https://rewindex.com/company/looker.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:69/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@b09f62196895 → after incident\_version:69/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@a49fe3bf0904
- Change 18 of 18 for this incident

## Discussed on Hacker News

- [Google Cloud is down in the Europe-west2 region](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163858): 12 points, 3 comments, posted 2026-10-20 10:16 UTC, posted 101 min after the vendor’s first update

Incident page (full timeline): [Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/company/looker/incidents/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj.md)
## What changed

**1. Changed: Update** (resolved) · 2026-11-04 21:15 UTC

```diff
  …sources. Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) battery systems provide
+ approximately
  five minutes of autonomous runtime. This bridge power…
  …a timeout or error code during the disruption.
- Any workloads
+ Workloads
  and resources hosted entirely within europe-west2-b became unreachable…
  …impact and next steps for each impacted product.
- **Google Compute Engine and Persistent Disk**
+ ###
  Google Compute Engine and Persistent Disk **Impact:** Upon…
  …Upon power loss, Cloud SQL detected failures and
+ immediately
  initiated automated failovers for all regional HA instances.…
  …immediately initiated automated failovers for all regional HA
- instances immediately. The failover finished successfully for 48.5% of these regional instances, mitigating their impact right away. Recovery for the remaining instances was extended primarily due to
+ instances. The failover was complete for regional instances that did not have
  Regional Persistent Disk failures (see above), mitigating their…
  …not have Regional Persistent Disk failures (see above),
- specifically device stalls. 99.95% of Cloud SQL zonal instances recovered automatically by 20 Oct 2026, 05:15 US/Pacific (13:15 BST), shortly after europe-west2-b recovered.
+ mitigating their impact right away. A majority of the remaining instances recovered by 20 Oct 2026, 01:00 US/Pacific (09:00 BST) once the Regional Persistent Disk recovered, shortly after europe-west2-b recovery. A small number of remaining instances were fully recovered by 20 Oct 2026, 11:00 US/Pacific (19:00 BST).
  **Next Steps:** Our engineering team is implementing improvements…
  …with sufficient capacity to absorb the failover load.
+ ### List of impacted services
  We did not identify any impact of the…
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 09:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rd37984fbb03015.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 09:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rfd073354b50eb0.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 09:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r3c0dc7a60cdfbc.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 10:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r59244daac912dd.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-20 11:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r1f0de1febea892.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r93375ceaaad079.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 12:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r8cd453ac988351.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 12:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r0e64529a1d176c.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 14:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/re293462833185a.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-22 05:53 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rcb55c2c3c851d3.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-22 07:53 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r379242ad1184d7.md) | minor edit |
| 2026-10-22 08:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r9378bce842892a.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-22 09:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r433a22f0c37466.md) | Rewrite: duration shortened |
| 2026-10-22 16:23 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r8cd80e4838c9ea.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-27 15:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r91158609dece51.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-28 00:43 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rd88b19f9c2d2b2.md) | minor edit |
| 2026-11-04 21:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r5d2ab5d0b5a881.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-11-05 06:23 UTC | Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. (this change) | Wording only |

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## Cite this

Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. on Looker’s status page, changed 2026-11-05 06:23 UTC (change 18 of 18).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r72cda4a1ae9631
- Citation: Looker, “Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.” (2026-11-05 06:23 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r72cda4a1ae9631 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Looker: Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. (2026-11-05)](https://rewindex.com/change/r72cda4a1ae9631)`


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