Pinecone incident
Intermittent unavailability across all environments for some indexes
Pinecone experienced a major incident on January 2, 2026 affecting us-west1-gcp and Console and 1 more component, lasting 1h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
us-west1-gcpConsoleAWS us-west-2us-east1-gcpAWS us-east-1us-central1-gcpAWS eu-west-1us-west4-gcpAzure eastus2us-east4-gcp
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 02, 2026, 04:31 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this issue.
- monitoring Jan 02, 2026, 05:18 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Jan 02, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.