Snowflake experienced a major incident on April 16, 2026 affecting Applications, lasting 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Apr 16, 2026, 02:08 PM UTC
Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Incident start time: 12:25 UTC April 16, 2026 Incident end time: 13:45 UTC April 16, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Some application instances entered a degraded state and were unable to handle downstream connections. Snowflake mitigated the issue by restarting the affected instances.
- resolved Apr 16, 2026, 03:08 PM UTC
Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Incident start time: 12:25 UTC April 16, 2026 Incident end time: 13:45 UTC April 16, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Some application instances entered a degraded state and were unable to handle downstream connections. Snowflake mitigated the issue by restarting the affected instances. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be published within five business days.
- postmortem Apr 23, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC
Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0155608](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0155608)