Elastic Cloud: Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted 2026-10-08 16:42 UTCResolved 2026-10-09 00:54 UTC (8.2 h)5 updatesSource: stspg.io

Summary

A major outage caused delayed or unavailable operations for some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in GCP us-central1 from 2026-10-08 16:42 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:54 UTC, lasting 8 h 11 min. Elastic identified an upstream cloud storage issue; the provider applied mitigations, and project operations returned to normal.

Machine-written from the archived incident (Sol). Check the timeline before relying on it.

Affected components: GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1GCP Iowa (us-central1) - GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1

Timeline of updates

investigating2026-10-08 16:42 UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region. Customers may experience delayed or unavailable project operation.
identified2026-10-08 17:21 UTC
We have identified an issue with cloud storage affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region. Customers may experience delayed or unavailable project operations. The provider is investigating the issue, and we are monitoring recovery. We will provide another update when more information is available.
identified2026-10-08 19:17 UTC
Some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region may still experience delayed or unavailable project operations. The provider is continuing to investigate the issue. We are monitoring the situation and will provide another update when more information is available.
monitoring2026-10-08 20:47 UTC
We have observed improvements after mitigations were applied by our upstream cloud storage provider. Some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region may still experience delayed or unavailable project operations while recovery continues. We are monitoring the situation and will provide another update when more information is available.
resolved2026-10-09 00:54 UTC
The upstream cloud storage issue affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region has been resolved. Project operations have returned to normal, and we are no longer seeing affected projects in a red health state.

Rewindex changes for this incident

Major incident: Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1 2026-10-08 16:42 UTC

Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab). Elastic Cloud profile · Recent Elastic Cloud incidents · Markdown · JSON