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Northflank: Partial Control Plane Degredation

unknownStatus: resolvededitedStarted Resolved (6.8 h)5 updatesstatus.northflank.com (opens in new tab)
Summary

Northflank edited its 10-20 07:46 UTC monitoring update for Partial Control Plane Degredation to add a public Google status-page link. The update still states that affected logging and metric components were moved to a different zone; no new impact, severity or duration information was provided.

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

Part of an outage event

Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026 · 19 vendors, 19 incidents

Northflank’s incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +36 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)

“…Partial Control Plane Degredation Availability zone b in GCP europe-west2 is experiencing issues with VM to VM communication impacting parts of the platform. We are working on mitigating the impact. T…”

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Google Cloud europe-west2posted 06:08 UTCPosted before Google Cloud did1 vendor, 1 blamed Google CloudJFrogWithin an hour4 vendors, 4 blamed Google CloudAiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud, dbt Labs1 to 4 hours later4 vendors, 4 blamed Google CloudMongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB, ClickHouse CloudLater2 vendors, 1 blamed Google CloudGrafana Cloud, ConfluentNorthflank (this incident)posted +36 min
Google Cloud europe-west2posted 06:08 UTCPosted before Google Cloud did1 vendor, 1 blamed GoogleCloudJFrogWithin an hour4 vendors, 4 blamed GoogleCloudAiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud,dbt Labs1 to 4 hours later4 vendors, 4 blamed GoogleCloudMongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph,CockroachDB, ClickHouseCloudLater2 vendors, 1 blamed GoogleCloudGrafana Cloud, ConfluentNorthflank (this incident)posted +36 min
Northflank is outlined in red. Groups show up to a few vendors each; the event page lists every incident.
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  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["Northflank (this incident)<br/>posted +36 min"]:::me
  h1 --- me

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Affected components: Logs and MetricsNorthflank App

Timeline of updates

  1. identified

    Availability zone b in GCP europe-west2 is experiencing issues with VM to VM communication impacting parts of the platform. We are working on mitigating the impact. The majority of users and system components are unaffeced..

  2. monitoringEdited

    We have moved the affected parts of the logging and metric components to a different zone. We will continue to monitor the situation. A public Google status page is now available: <https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj (opens in new tab)>.

  3. investigating

    The incident has expanded to our core control plane services, affecting login and control plane components. We are working to mitigate the impact. Existing user workloads deployed are unaffected..

  4. monitoring

    Services are operating normally, and we are monitoring the situation..

  5. resolved

    This incident has been resolved..

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