# Couchbase: Capella Operations Impacted by GCP capacity issues

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-04 23:26 UTC · Resolved: 2026-08-05 19:21 UTC · Duration: 20 h
- Updates: 6 · Affected components: GCP - Google Cloud Platform Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Platform Google Compute Engine
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/r28m50zmkncl](https://stspg.io/r28m50zmkncl)
- [Company: Couchbase](https://rewindex.com/company/couchbase.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-08-04 23:26 UTC: GCP us-central1 capacity issue impacting Operational Cluster lifecycle operations, including new cluster creation, turn-on, and backup. Existing clusters are unaffected, and we are actively working with the GCP team on the next steps.
- **identified** 2026-08-04 23:39 UTC: We are in direct contact with GCP support to monitor us-central1 and will provide another update as soon as capacity stabilizes. Recommended Workarounds: \* New Deployments: Select an alternate GCP region (such as us-east1, us-east4, or us-west1) for new cluster creation.  \* Existing Clusters: Avoid pausing, stopping, or modifying existing us-central1 clusters until GCP resolves the capacity constraint, as turning them back on or adding nodes may temporarily fail.
- **identified** 2026-08-05 03:09 UTC: The capacity issues impacting the GCP regions and resulting operational Cluster lifecycle operations, including new cluster creation, turn-on, and backup failures: us-central1 asia-southeast1 us-east1 Recommended Workarounds: \* New Deployments: Select an alternate GCP region for new cluster creation. \* Existing Clusters: Avoid pausing, stopping, or modifying existing us-central1 clusters until GCP resolves the capacity constraint, as turning them back on or adding nodes may temporarily fail. \* Backups: Support Team will perform cluster backups to continue to maintain backups. We continue to work closely with the GCP team on mitigation.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-05 12:20 UTC: We have seen signs of recovery and failure rates have drastically reduced. We continue to monitor the situation closely.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-05 19:13 UTC: We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- **resolved** 2026-08-05 19:21 UTC: Across us-central1, asia-southeast1, and us-east1 regions, we have verified that all Cluster lifecycle operations—including new cluster creations, turn-ons, and backups—are now functioning normally and completing successfully. Failure rates have returned to the standard baseline level.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-08-04 23:26 UTC: [Major incident: Capella Operations Impacted by GCP capacity issues](https://rewindex.com/change/ibc872d945977bf.md)


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