# Northflank: Partial Control Plane Degredation

- Impact (vendor’s label): unknown
- Status: resolved · edited after publishing
- Started: 2026-10-20 06:44 UTC · Resolved: 2026-10-20 13:34 UTC · Duration: 6.8 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Logs and Metrics, Northflank App
- [Vendor status page: https://status.northflank.com/incident/cmvgbi9tw02sw1mmnhu634801](https://status.northflank.com/incident/cmvgbi9tw02sw1mmnhu634801)
- [Company: Northflank](https://rewindex.com/company/northflank.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 +36 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
- Evidence: “…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…”

```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["Northflank (this incident)<br/>posted +36 min"]:::me
  h1 --- 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._

## 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, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-10-20 06:44 UTC: 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..
- **monitoring** 2026-10-20 07:46 UTC _(edited after publishing)_: 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\>.
- **investigating** 2026-10-20 09:40 UTC: 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..
- **monitoring** 2026-10-20 09:53 UTC: Services are operating normally, and we are monitoring the situation..
- **resolved** 2026-10-20 13:34 UTC: This incident has been resolved..

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-10-20 07:53 UTC: [Incident updated: Partial Control Plane Degredation](https://rewindex.com/change/rebc4b472508bd4.md)
- 2026-10-20 09:13 UTC: [Incident silently edited: Partial Control Plane Degredation](https://rewindex.com/change/r4528612193f190.md)
- 2026-10-20 09:43 UTC: [Incident updated: Partial Control Plane Degredation](https://rewindex.com/change/rf805085e753383.md)
- 2026-10-20 09:53 UTC: [Incident updated: Partial Control Plane Degredation](https://rewindex.com/change/r7c8c7d28d719fa.md)
- 2026-10-20 13:43 UTC: [Incident updated: Partial Control Plane Degredation](https://rewindex.com/change/rcb36c9873188cc.md)


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/northflank/incidents/cmvgbi9tw02sw1mmnhu634801 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/northflank/incidents/cmvgbi9tw02sw1mmnhu634801.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/northflank/incidents/cmvgbi9tw02sw1mmnhu634801 · Generated 2026-10-21T00:28:23.431Z