GCP Databricks incident

ES-1895876

Started
May 05, 2026, 07:37 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 1h 58m
Detected by Pingoru
May 05, 2026, 07:37 AM UTC

Affected components

ComputeUnity Catalog (US-Central1)Unity Catalog (US-East1)Unity Catalog (US-East4)Unity Catalog (Northamerica-Northeast1)Unity Catalog (Australia-Southeast1)

Update timeline

  1. identified May 05, 2026, 07:37 AM UTC

    Impact Summary Starting at 05 May 2026 03:33 UTC, Classic Compute in multiple regions may fail to start clusters when init scripts are configured. There was brief recovery observed at 05:55 UTC. Some customers may continue to observe failures starting 06:10 UTC Symptoms Customers may observe: Clusters failing to initialize or not starting Extended cluster start times when init scripts are configured Recommendations No customer action is required at this time. Current Status We have identified the root cause as an outage affecting an external Ubuntu package repository. The external provider has reported service restoration as of 05 May 2026 05:55 UTC. Some customers may continue to observe delays in cluster initialization while we confirm full recovery. We are actively monitoring and continuing to investigate residual impact. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.

  2. identified May 05, 2026, 09:22 AM UTC

    Impact Summary Starting at 05 May 2026 03:33 UTC, Classic Compute in multiple regions may fail to start clusters when init scripts are configured. There was brief recovery observed at 05:55 UTC. Some customers may continue to observe failures starting 06:10 UTC Symptoms Customers may observe: Clusters failing to initialize or not starting Extended cluster start times when init scripts are configured Recommendations No customer action is required at this time. Current Status We have identified the root cause as an outage affecting an external Ubuntu package repository. The external provider has reported service restoration as of 05 May 2026 08:06 UTC. Some customers may continue to observe delays in cluster initialization while we confirm full recovery. We are actively monitoring and continuing to investigate residual impact. Next Update We will provide another update within 1 hour, or sooner if there is a material change in service status.

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