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Pinecone outage history and status

Is Pinecone down right now?

No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
99.16%
uptime, 90 days
7
incidents, 90 days
58 min
median time to fix
Oct 14, 2026
last incident

Pinecone components

Serverless Indexes

Pod Indexes

Pinecone outage history

Nov: 3 incidents, 64 min of major outage 3 Nov Dec: 7 incidents, 871 min of major outage 7 Dec Jan: 2 incidents, 285 min of major outage 2 Jan Feb: 2 incidents, 158 min of major outage 2 Feb Mar: 3 incidents, 134 min of major outage 3 Mar Apr: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Apr May: 4 incidents, 167 min of major outage 4 May Jun: 5 incidents, 215 min of major outage 5 Jun Jul: 4 incidents, 317 min of major outage 4 Jul Aug: 1 incidents, 21 min of major outage 1 Aug Sep: 4 incidents, 1001 min of major outage 4 Sep Oct: 2 incidents, 70 min of major outage 2 Oct
Pinecone incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage. Shaded: before our complete history.
Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
Oct 14, 2026, 14:48 UTC [Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests Minor <1 min
Oct 7, 2026, 20:40 UTC [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
Index Management
 Major 1 h 10 min
Sep 28, 2026, 04:13 UTC [Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency
us-east-1-aws
 Minor 8 min
Sep 22, 2026, 23:34 UTC [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests
AWS eu-west-1
 Major 58 min
Sep 17, 2026, 05:37 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath
AWS us-west-2
 Major 11 h 07 min
Sep 1, 2026, 15:04 UTC 5xx errors on some control plane operations
Console, Index Management, Assistant
 Major 4 h 36 min
Aug 25, 2026, 15:50 UTC [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
GCP us-central1
 Major 21 min
Jul 21, 2026, 19:10 UTC [SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces
Azure eastus2
 Critical 30 min
Jul 20, 2026, 16:44 UTC [SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexes
AWS us-east-1
 Minor 1 h 15 min
Jul 12, 2026, 23:21 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
AWS us-east-1
 Minor 4 h 55 min
Jul 9, 2026, 09:50 UTC [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexes
Azure eastus2
 Major 4 h 47 min
Jun 18, 2026, 10:00 UTC Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty results
AWS us-west-2, AWS eu-west-1, Azure eastus2, GCP us-central1, GCP europe-west4
 Minor 8 h 23 min
Jun 16, 2026, 13:05 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Metrics tab in the console not showing graphs
AWS us-east-1
 No impact 4 h
Jun 6, 2026, 17:05 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes
AWS us-west-2
 Major 3 h 35 min
Jun 6, 2026, 13:05 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Read path operations for some indexes may experience elevated latency and timeouts
AWS us-west-2
 Minor 2 h 45 min
Jun 6, 2026, 00:48 UTC [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes
AWS us-east-1
 Minor 27 min
May 25, 2026, 13:41 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.
AWS us-west-2
 Major 1 h 19 min
May 13, 2026, 20:14 UTC [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexes
AWS us-east-1
 Major 1 h 01 min
May 6, 2026, 20:02 UTC [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes
AWS us-east-1
 Major 27 min
May 6, 2026, 15:00 UTC Pinecone Console loading slowly for some users
Console
 Minor 20 min
Mar 13, 2026, 08:50 UTC [GCP][europe-west4] Errors for upsert operations on some indexes
GCP europe-west4
 Major 1 h 03 min
Mar 5, 2026, 21:57 UTC [AWS][us-east-1] Prometheus metrics are unavailable through the Pinecone console or the metric proxy
AWS us-east-1
 Minor 1 h 05 min
Mar 4, 2026, 21:06 UTC [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some indexes
GCP us-central1
 Major 1 h 10 min
Feb 23, 2026, 23:14 UTC [GCP][us-central1][europe-west4] Errors on some read operations
GCP us-central1, GCP europe-west4
 Major 2 h 38 min
Feb 5, 2026, 10:55 UTC [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
AWS us-east-1
 Minor 11 h 02 min

50 incidents in our archive since August 26, 2025.

When and where Pinecone fails

By weekday

Most incidents start on Tue.

  • Mon9
  • Tue11
  • Wed10
  • Thu10
  • Fri6
  • Sat3
  • Sun1

Most affected, last 12 months

  • AWS us-east-111
  • AWS us-west-28
  • GCP us-central16
  • GCP europe-west45
  • AWS eu-west-14
  • Azure eastus24
  • Assistant3
  • Console3

When Pinecone went down with others

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FAQ

Is Pinecone down right now?
At our last check Pinecone's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does Pinecone go down?
Pinecone reported 7 incidents in the last 90 days (5 major or critical), with 1,092 minutes of major outage: 99.16% uptime.
When was the last Pinecone outage?
The latest reported incident started on Oct 14, 2026, 14:48 UTC: "[Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests", resolved after <1 min.
How long do Pinecone outages last?
Half of Pinecone's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 58 min.

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