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Pinecone

pinecone.ioStatus page: status.pinecone.ioNow: operational since 2026-10-17
197incidents since 2022-07-20
95major or critical
9in the last 90 days
0silently edited or deleted

Recent notable changes

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
Newly created Pinecone serverless indexes on GCP in us-central1 failed to initialize, affecting Index Management. The vendor rated the incident major; it began at 2026-10-07 20:40 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-07 21:49 UTC, lasting 1 h 9 min. No cause or fix was stated.
Major incident
Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests
Pinecone reported a major incident affecting a small percentage of Serverless read requests in AWS eu-west-1 with 5xx errors. It started at 2026-09-22 23:34 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-23 00:32 UTC, lasting 57 min. Pinecone reported mitigating the errors at 2026-09-23 00:05 UTC.
Major incident
Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath
Pinecone reported a major incident causing readpath 5xx errors for Serverless Indexes in AWS us-west-2, from 2026-09-17 05:37 UTC to 2026-09-17 16:44 UTC (11 h 7 min). Pinecone reported mitigation underway, followed by recovery monitoring and resolution; no specific cause or fix was stated.
Major incident
Major incident: 5xx errors on some control plane operations
Pinecone reported a major incident causing 5xx errors on some control plane operations, affecting Console, Index management, Assistant management, and APIs at api.pinecone.io. It started at 2026-09-01 15:04 UTC and was resolved at 2026-09-01 19:40 UTC, lasting 4 h 36 min. Pinecone said it was likely related to ongoing GCP issues.
Major incident
Major incident: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
Pinecone reported a major incident affecting Serverless Indexes in GCP us-central1, with 5xx errors on some read and write requests. It started at 2026-08-25 15:50 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-25 16:11 UTC, lasting 21 min; Pinecone stated that a fix was implemented.
Major incident
Critical incident: [SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces
Pinecone reported a critical incident causing 5xx errors for some Serverless namespaces in Azure eastus2. It started at 2026-07-21 19:10 UTC and was resolved at 2026-07-21 19:40 UTC, with a reported duration of 29 min; Pinecone identified the issue and implemented a fix but did not specify the cause.
Major incident
Major incident: [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexes
Pinecone reported a major outage causing 5xx errors on some requests for some Serverless indexes in Azure eastus2. It started at 2026-07-09 09:50 UTC and was resolved at 2026-07-09 14:37 UTC, lasting 4 h 47 min; Pinecone reported implementing a fix and monitoring the results.
Major incident
Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesMajor incident
Major incident: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.Major incident
Major incident: [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexesMajor incident

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Status incident history

Pinecone status incidents per year
0204060↑ incidents20222023202420252026225727127
Grey: all non-maintenance incidents. Orange: major or critical. Years before Oct 2026 come from the vendor’s own status history.
Data table
YearIncidentsMajor/critical
202220
2023259
20247226
20257144
20262716
Incidents per month, last 36 months
By impact as reported by the vendor. Maintenance excluded.
Data table
MonthImpactIncidents
2023-10major1
2023-11major1
2023-11minor1
2023-11none1
2023-12minor1
2024-01minor3
2024-02major2
2024-02none2
2024-03minor1
2024-03none1
2024-04minor2
2024-04none3
2024-05critical1
2024-05major2
2024-05minor4
2024-05none1
2024-06major2
2024-06minor2
2024-06none1
2024-07critical1
2024-07minor3
2024-07none2
2024-08major1
2024-08minor5
2024-08none3
2024-09major4
2024-09minor3
2024-10critical1
2024-10major3
2024-10minor1
2024-10none1
2024-11major4
2024-11minor3
2024-12critical1
2024-12major4
2024-12minor4
2024-12none1
2025-01major2
2025-01minor1
2025-02minor4
2025-03critical1
2025-03major1
2025-03minor1
2025-04major4
2025-04minor2
2025-05critical1
2025-05major5
2025-05minor7
2025-05none1
2025-06major7
2025-06minor2
2025-07critical1
2025-07major3
2025-07minor1
2025-08major5
2025-08minor2
2025-09major4
2025-09minor1
2025-10major4
2025-10none1
2025-11major2
2025-11none1
2025-12major4
2025-12minor1
2025-12none2
2026-01major2
2026-02major1
2026-02minor1
2026-03major2
2026-03minor1
2026-05major3
2026-05minor1
2026-06major1
2026-06minor3
2026-06none1
2026-07critical1
2026-07major1
2026-07minor2
2026-08major1
2026-09major3
2026-09minor1
2026-10major1
2026-10minor1

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Pricing, trust and legal pages

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Trust / securitypartialtrust.pinecone.io22026-10-172026-10-17none yet

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Incident timeline

Latest 100 of 197 incidents. Full list: last 90 days · JSON · Markdown

Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
[Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requestsminor0 min
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initializemajor1.2 h
[Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latencyminor8 min
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requestsmajor58 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpathmajor11 h
5xx errors on some control plane operationsmajor4.6 h
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requestsmajor21 min
[SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespacescritical30 min
[SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexesminor1.3 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespacesminor4.9 h
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexesmajor4.8 h
Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty resultsminor8.4 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Metrics tab in the console not showing graphsnone4.0 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesmajor3.6 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Read path operations for some indexes may experience elevated latency and timeoutsminor2.8 h
[AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesminor27 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.major1.3 h
[AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexesmajor1.0 h
[AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesmajor27 min
Pinecone Console loading slowly for some usersminor20 min
[GCP][europe-west4] Errors for upsert operations on some indexesmajor1.1 h
[AWS][us-east-1] Prometheus metrics are unavailable through the Pinecone console or the metric proxyminor1.1 h
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some indexesmajor1.2 h
[GCP][us-central1][europe-west4] Errors on some read operationsmajor2.6 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespacesminor11 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor3.3 h
Intermittent unavailability across all environments for some indexesmajor1.4 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on some read path operationsmajor16 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Partial control plane unavailability for some usersnone-977 min
[Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexesmajor11 h
Increased file processing time for Assistantminor5.6 h
Unavailability for embed and rerank requestsnone-37 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some namespacesmajor2.1 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on read path operations for some namespacesmajor46 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on some read path operationsmajor1.0 h
Some index-level usage metrics unavailablenone-1443 min
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx errors on some write path operationsmajor2 min
Partial unavailability on cohere-rerank-3.5 modelnone0 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write operationsmajor51 min
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some read and write operationsmajor1.4 h
Some users may be unable to access the Pinecone web console. All API services remain fully operational.major2.0 h
Some users may be unable to access the Pinecone web console. All API services remain fully operational.major17 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] `403 PermissionDenied` errors for read and write operations on some indexes and assistantsminor6 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on some read and write operationsmajor3.4 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on some read operationsmajor4.5 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on write operations for some indexesmajor1.8 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor15 h
Console stuck loading after login for some usersminor2.2 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexesmajor1.9 h
[Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] Indexing lag on some indexes; recent writes may not appear in readsminor1.7 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operations for some indexesmajor1.0 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor24 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Unavailability for some read path operationsmajor1.1 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Unavailability for some read path operationsmajor5.4 h
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor17 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1][eu-west-1] Unavailability for some read and write path operationsmajor29 h
Read units not included in API response for query, list, and fetch operations on serverless indexesminor5 d
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor59 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexescritical18 h
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor31 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexesmajor6.0 h
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some read path operationsmajor36 min
Google Cloud outage impacting all GCP clusters, Inference, Assistant, and control plane operations; console elements failing to loadmajor8.2 h
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] Increase latencies and error rates on read endpointsmajor10 h
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] Increase latencies and error rates on read endpointsmajor1.5 h
[Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] Increased latencies and timeouts on query operations for some indexesminor53 min
Index creation and deletion operations delayed in Azure eastus2 serverless environmentmajor20 h
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] Delayed availability of newly-written records on some indexesminor5.2 h
[Serverless][AWS eu-west-1][GCP europe-west4] Internal server errors for read path operations on some indexesminor2.0 h
[Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] Increased latency and timeouts on some indexes, read operations impactedminor7.7 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Indexing lag on some indexes; recent writes may not appear in readsminor25 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Sporadic errors for fetch and query operations on some indexesminor11 h
Availability issues with rerank endpointmajor0 min
Partial Control Plane Outagemajor2.4 h
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] High indexing lag on some indexesminor3.2 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency on read path requests for some indexesminor14 h
[Inference] Downtime on llama-embed & multilingual-e5-large modelscritical0 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors and increased latency for some read operations on some indexesmajor35 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Increased latency for upsert and fetch operations on some indexesminor5.6 h
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on read requests to some indexesmajor36 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Errors on queries for some indexesmajor2.1 h
Elevated P90 latencies in file upload and searchnone42 min
Elevated latencies on file ingestion in Assistant (US)minor6.3 h
[Assistant] File uploads and deletions not processingmajor17 min
[Serverless] [AWS] [us-east-1] Delays in index creation and deletion operationsmajor52 min
[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 500 errors on queries for some indexesmajor3.8 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] gRPC status code 14 (503 errors) on some queriesminor23 min
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] Increased latency and 5xx errors on upsertsmajor36 min
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Newly created indexes failing to initializemajor1.3 h
API requests to records (Pinecone Inference) endpoints failing with 404 error in GCP and Azure serverless environmentscritical6.1 h
[GCP-Starter] Increase in write operations errors and an increase in freshness lag.minor28 d
[Serverless] [GCP] [us-central1] Increase in latency for all operationsminor6.5 h
Metrics in console not populating for serverless indexesminor3.0 h
[Serverless] [AWS] [eu-west-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors on write pathminor11 min
[Serverless] [AWS] [eu-west-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors on write pathminor20 min
[Serverless] [GCP] [us-central1] Increased latency and errors on write and fetch operationsmajor46 min
[Serverless] [GCP] [us-central1] Increased freshness lag for some indexesminor27 h
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 500 errors for queriesmajor1 min
[Serverless] [GCP] [ europe-west4] 504 errors for read operationsminor1.3 h
[Serverless] [GCP] [us-central1] Elevated error rates and latencies for some operationsminor53 min