Yext incident

Widespread Analytics Platform Failures due to Snowflake Outage in US Source Region

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Yext experienced a major incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Analytics Ingestion and Scout Portal and 1 more component, lasting 8h 48m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 20, 2025, 01:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC
Duration
8h 48m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 01:42 PM UTC

Affected components

Analytics IngestionScout PortalAnalytics PortalReal-time Scan APIAnalytics QueriesScout API

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 01:42 PM UTC

    We are investigating reports of elevated error rates in the Scout Real Time Scan API.

  2. identified Oct 20, 2025, 01:48 PM UTC

    The ongoing Snowflake Incident is causing impacts on the Yext Analytics platform and systems that rely upon it, such as the Scout Interactive API. https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/gvmvnx7lyxjj We are monitoring Snowflake's ongoing incident and will provide updates as we can.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 02:56 PM UTC

    Our automated monitoring checks have recovered. We are continuing to monitor Snowflake's status for updates. Some analytics queries may still be slower than usual.

  4. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 06:29 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor system performance as a result of the ongoing incident with Snowflake

  5. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 10:30 PM UTC

    This incident is resolved.