GCP Databricks experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2026 affecting Databricks SQL and Lakeflow and 1 more component, lasting 3h 28m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 06:39 AM 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.
- investigating Oct 20, 2026, 06:40 AM 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.
- identified Oct 20, 2026, 07:13 AM UTC
Impact Summary Starting at 06:01 UTC on October 20, 2026, customers using Databricks on Google Cloud may experience degraded availability with Databricks SQL, Jobs, and Unity Catalog. Affected customers may encounter errors or timeouts when accessing governed data, running SQL queries, or completing job runs. Symptoms • SQL or Delta reads failing with permission or catalog errors • Queries failing, timing out, or running significantly slower • Jobs remaining pending or failing to complete Recommendations No customer action is required at this time. Current Status The issue has been identified and mitigation efforts are in progress. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.
- identified Oct 20, 2026, 08:11 AM UTC
Impact Summary Starting at 06:19 UTC October 20, 2026, customers using Databricks on Google Cloud in europe-west2 may experience degraded availability with Jobs, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Declarative Pipelines, and authentication. Affected customers may encounter errors, timeouts, or failures when launching clusters, signing in, or running workloads. Symptoms • Jobs API request failures and job run errors • Unity Catalog and authentication timeouts • Databricks SQL query errors Recommendations No customer action is required at this time. Current Status The issue is under active investigation in coordination with the cloud provider. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 09:10 AM UTC
Impact Summary Between 06:01 UTC and 07:59 UTC on October 20, 2026, customers using Databricks on Google Cloud may have experienced degraded availability with Databricks SQL, Declarative Pipelines, Jobs, Unity Catalog, and Login. Affected customers may have encountered errors, timeouts, or failures when accessing governed data, running queries, signing in, or starting and completing workloads during this window. Symptoms • Timeouts or catalog and permission errors when accessing Unity Catalog objects • SQL query failures, slow warehouse startup, or incomplete dashboard results • Login failures and jobs or pipeline runs that failed, stayed pending, or did not progress Current Status The issue has been mitigated, and Databricks service is operational. Recovery was coordinated with the cloud provider. The underlying Google Cloud incident remains active, and we continue to monitor the situation for any further impact. For updates on the cloud provider's incident, see the https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.