DataStax Astra incident
Network service degredation for databases on us-central1 GCP region
DataStax Astra experienced a minor incident on September 1, 2026 affecting Google Cloud Platform Google Kubernetes Engine, lasting 1h 43m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 05:39 PM UTC
We are monitoring the progress of a Google Cloud Provider incident as well as monitoring internal traffic. No current impact is detected. Multiple products in us-central1-b for GCP were experiencing network service degradation. Some of the components used by Astra were impacted. Although the GCP incident is still ongoing, the services Astra uses are marked as resolved and our own testing indicates no ongoing issues for the affected region. Details about the ongoing GCP incident can be found on their status page: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/J5ia5t9p3g9Q5Wi7r8Ev
- resolved Sep 01, 2026, 07:22 PM UTC
GCP has resolved their incident (see below) and we have not seen further impact while we monitored independently. Related GCP incident: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/J5ia5t9p3g9Q5Wi7r8Ev