# Orb: Elevated errors across API endpoints

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC · Resolved: 2025-06-12 19:52 UTC · Duration: 30 min
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Analytics, API - Analytics, API - Reads, Reads, API - Writes, Writes
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/54qgfx94rb2s](https://stspg.io/54qgfx94rb2s)
- [Company: Orb](https://rewindex.com/company/orb.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [Google Cloud outage, Jun 12, 2025: 101 vendors, 107 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2025-06-12-google-cloud)
- This incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +1 h 28 min vs the first vendor naming Google Cloud)
- Evidence: “…:13. This is due to an influx of traffic, believed to be downstream effects from a global GCP outage. We executed immediate mitigations, have observed recovery, and will continue to monitor errors. Th…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  h1["Within an hour<br/>29 vendors, 28 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Pinecone, Northflank, imgix +26"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>12 vendors, 11 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Smartsheet, Daily, Confluent +9"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Zilliz"]:::blames
  root --> later
  p0["Firebase<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  root -.-> p0
  k0["Codeium, Windsurf<br/>+13 min"]:::hop2
  p0 -->|"blamed Firebase"| k0
  p1["Anthropic<br/>posted +28 min, did not name Google Cloud"]:::timing
  root -.-> p1
  k1["GitHub, GitHub Copilot<br/>+24 min"]:::hop2
  p1 -->|"blamed Anthropic"| k1
  p2["Cloudflare<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
  root -.-> p2
  k2["Doppler, Jupyter (Anaconda), Socket +4<br/>+35 min to +3 h 41 min"]:::hop2
  p2 -->|"blamed Cloudflare"| k2
  me["Orb (this incident)<br/>posted +1 h 28 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

- **monitoring** 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC: API read and analytic endpoints experienced high rates of API failures between 18:52 - 19:13. This is due to an influx of traffic, believed to be downstream effects from a global GCP outage. We executed immediate mitigations, have observed recovery, and will continue to monitor errors.
- **monitoring** 2025-06-12 19:39 UTC: We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- **resolved** 2025-06-12 19:52 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2025-06-12 19:22 UTC: [Major incident: Elevated errors across API endpoints](https://rewindex.com/change/idc5549f5fcbe28.md)


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