Pinecone incident

[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some indexes

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Pinecone experienced a major incident on March 4, 2026 affecting GCP us-central1, lasting 1h 10m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 04, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 04, 2026, 10:16 PM UTC
Duration
1h 10m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 04, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC

Affected components

GCP us-central1

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 04, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Mar 04, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Mar 04, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.