GCP Databricks experienced a major incident on October 16, 2026 affecting AI/BI and Databricks Apps and 1 more component, lasting 1h 11m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 16, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC
We are actively investigating an issue with the Databricks service. We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.
- monitoring Oct 16, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC
Impact Summary Between 15:07 UTC and 15:49 UTC on October 16, 2026, customers using Databricks may have experienced degraded availability with Serverless Compute, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL, Jobs, Notebooks, and Genie One. Affected customers may have encountered errors, unavailable workspace UI features, or failures when starting or running workloads during this window. Symptoms • Genie One, the workspace app switcher, and other workspace UI features are unavailable or returning errors • Serverless workloads, jobs, and SQL queries failing to start or returning errors • Notebooks and Databricks Apps failing to load or execute Current Status The issue has been mitigated, and service is operational. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.