# CockroachDB: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved · edited after publishing
- Started: 2026-10-20 07:53 UTC · Resolved: 2026-10-20 14:53 UTC · Duration: 7.0 h
- Updates: 4 · Affected components: CockroachDB Advanced, CockroachDB Cloud - CockroachDB Advanced, CockroachDB Basic/Standard, CockroachDB Cloud - CockroachDB Basic/Standard
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/dhv27txqcxcc](https://stspg.io/dhv27txqcxcc)
- [Company: CockroachDB](https://rewindex.com/company/cockroachdb.md)

## 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 +1 h 46 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
- Evidence: “…gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues GCP has mitigated the power event that caused this disruption in the europe-west2 region. All GCP and CRL services has returned to normal operation. No further…”

```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["CockroachDB (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h 46 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._

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-10-20 07:53 UTC: GCP europe-west2-b and availability zone is currently experiencing issues. We will continue to monitor this situation and update status once we have more information.
- **identified** 2026-10-20 11:48 UTC: GCP has mitigated the power event that caused this disruption in the europe-west2 region and is working on mitigating impacted services. We will update once we have confirmation of mitigation.
- **monitoring** 2026-10-20 12:57 UTC: GCP has mitigated the power event that caused this disruption in the europe-west2 region and most GCP services have recovered. We will continue to track and ensure impacted CRL services return to normal operation before resolving.
- **resolved** 2026-10-20 14:53 UTC: GCP has mitigated the power event that caused this disruption in the europe-west2 region. All GCP and CRL services has returned to normal operation. No further action is required.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-10-20 07:53 UTC: [Major incident: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues](https://rewindex.com/change/i61aee5470cbde8.md)
- 2026-10-20 11:53 UTC: [Incident updated: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r1a1608e917030b.md)
- 2026-10-20 13:03 UTC: [Incident updated: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues](https://rewindex.com/change/r424100c642a8c1.md)
- 2026-10-20 15:03 UTC: [Incident updated: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues](https://rewindex.com/change/rd94d12d9afba95.md)


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