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Pinecone outage history

Pinecone published 42 incidents on its official status page since Oct 20, 2025, 1 of them rated at the highest impact level. 6 were major or long incidents with their own pages; the biggest are listed first. Below them is every smaller incident, then our own 90 day check history.

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Biggest Pinecone outages

Ranked by the official impact level, then by how long they lasted. Each has its own page with the cause, the fix time and every official update.

Dec 15, 2025: [Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexes 11 hours 23 min · rated "Major"
Sep 17, 2026: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath 11 hours 7 min · rated "Major"
Jul 9, 2026: [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexes 4 hours 47 min · rated "Major"
Sep 1, 2026: 5xx errors on some control plane operations 4 hours 36 min · rated "Major"
Jun 6, 2026: [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes 3 hours 35 min · rated "Major"
Jan 15, 2026: [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read operations for some indexes 3 hours 18 min · rated "Major"

Every smaller Pinecone incident

Minor and short incidents from the Pinecone status page, newest first, each with a line from the official updates. Times are UTC.

October 2026

Oct 14, 2026, 14:48 UTC · [Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests
duration not stated · rated "Minor"
"Incident is resolved."
Oct 7, 2026, 20:40 UTC · [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
1 hour 10 min · rated "Major"
"This incident has been resolved."

September 2026

Sep 28, 2026, 04:13 UTC · [Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency
8 minutes · rated "Minor"
"The third party dependency recovered, this incident has resolved."
Sep 22, 2026, 23:34 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests
58 minutes · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and mitigation is being actioned. A small percentage of read requests are impacted."

August 2026

Aug 25, 2026, 15:50 UTC · [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
21 minutes · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."

July 2026

Jul 21, 2026, 19:10 UTC · [SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces
30 minutes · rated "Critical"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Jul 20, 2026, 16:44 UTC · [SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexes
1 hour 15 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Jul 12, 2026, 23:21 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
4 hours 55 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

June 2026

Jun 18, 2026, 10:00 UTC · Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty results
8 hours 23 min · rated "Minor"
"This incident has been resolved."
Jun 16, 2026, 13:05 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Metrics tab in the console not showing graphs
3 hours 60 min · marked as no impact
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Jun 6, 2026, 13:05 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Read path operations for some indexes may experience elevated latency and timeouts
2 hours 45 min · rated "Minor"
"This incident has been resolved."
Jun 6, 2026, 00:48 UTC · [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes
27 minutes · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

May 2026

May 25, 2026, 13:41 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.
1 hour 19 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
May 13, 2026, 20:14 UTC · [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexes
1 hour 1 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
May 6, 2026, 20:02 UTC · [AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexes
27 minutes · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
May 6, 2026, 15:00 UTC · Pinecone Console loading slowly for some users
20 minutes · rated "Minor"
"The hosting provider for app.pinecone.io experienced increased errors and latency starting at 15:00 UTC. At 15:15 UTC, they implemented a fix and are continuing to monitor the impact. This incident did not impact Pinecone APIs or services."

March 2026

Mar 13, 2026, 08:50 UTC · [GCP][europe-west4] Errors for upsert operations on some indexes
1 hour 3 min · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
Mar 5, 2026, 21:57 UTC · [AWS][us-east-1] Prometheus metrics are unavailable through the Pinecone console or the metric proxy
1 hour 5 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Mar 4, 2026, 21:06 UTC · [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some indexes
1 hour 10 min · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."

February 2026

Feb 23, 2026, 23:14 UTC · [GCP][us-central1][europe-west4] Errors on some read operations
2 hours 38 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Feb 5, 2026, 10:55 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
11 hours 2 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

January 2026

Jan 2, 2026, 16:31 UTC · Intermittent unavailability across all environments for some indexes
1 hour 27 min · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."

December 2025

Dec 31, 2025, 03:13 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on some read path operations
16 minutes · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Dec 19, 2025, 17:31 UTC · [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Partial control plane unavailability for some users
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"From 8:15 PM to 8:50 PM UTC, some users experienced partial control plane unavailability."
Dec 9, 2025, 20:15 UTC · Increased file processing time for Assistant
5 hours 35 min · rated "Minor"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Dec 8, 2025, 21:19 UTC · Unavailability for embed and rerank requests
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"From 3:43 PM EST to 3:50 PM EST, some embed and rerank requests were unavailable."
Dec 5, 2025, 18:36 UTC · [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some namespaces
2 hours 6 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Dec 3, 2025, 15:53 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on read path operations for some namespaces
46 minutes · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."

November 2025

Nov 24, 2025, 17:28 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on some read path operations
1 hour 2 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Nov 14, 2025, 02:02 UTC · Some index-level usage metrics unavailable
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"Index-level usage metrics were unavailable for approximately 24 hours beginning at around 9:00 PM EST on November 12th"
Nov 6, 2025, 14:38 UTC · [Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx errors on some write path operations
2 minutes · rated "Major"
"This incident has been resolved."

October 2025

Oct 30, 2025, 22:00 UTC · Partial unavailability on cohere-rerank-3.5 model
duration not stated · marked as no impact
"From 4:58 PM EST to 5:10 PM EST, the cohere-rerank-3.5 model experienced partial unavailability."
Oct 23, 2025, 17:32 UTC · [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write operations
51 minutes · rated "Major"
"We are continuing to investigate this issue."
Oct 21, 2025, 17:57 UTC · [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some read and write operations
1 hour 27 min · rated "Major"
"The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented."
Oct 21, 2025, 01:27 UTC · Some users may be unable to access the Pinecone web console. All API services remain fully operational.
2 hours 3 min · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."
Oct 20, 2025, 17:43 UTC · Some users may be unable to access the Pinecone web console. All API services remain fully operational.
17 minutes · rated "Major"
"A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results."

Pinecone uptime, last 90 days

Tracked since Oct 7, 2026. Updated Oct 22, 2026, 12:35 UTC.

Uptime100%

Avg response124 ms

Problems, 30 days1

Last problemOct 7, 2026

90 days agoUp Degraded Down No dataToday

Every Pinecone problem in the last 90 days

Degraded
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
Oct 7, 2026, 21:25 UTC · lasted 29 minutes · from Pinecone's official status page

Day by day

Day (UTC)	Uptime	Avg response	Worst
Oct 22, 2026	100%	93 ms	Up
Oct 21, 2026	100%	110 ms	Up
Oct 20, 2026	100%	102 ms	Up
Oct 19, 2026	100%	115 ms	Up
Oct 18, 2026	100%	109 ms	Up
Oct 17, 2026	100%	116 ms	Up
Oct 16, 2026	100%	184 ms	Up
Oct 15, 2026	100%	216 ms	Up
Oct 14, 2026	100%	215 ms
Oct 13, 2026	100%	212 ms	Up
Oct 12, 2026	100%	209 ms
Oct 11, 2026	100%	144 ms	Up
Oct 10, 2026	100%	35 ms	Up
Oct 9, 2026	100%	41 ms	Up
Oct 8, 2026	100%	43 ms	Up
Oct 7, 2026	100%	43 ms	Degraded

Pinecone outage questions

Was Pinecone down today?

No. We recorded no Pinecone outage, degraded period or maintenance today (Oct 22, 2026, UTC).

Was Pinecone down yesterday?

No. We recorded no Pinecone outage, degraded period or maintenance yesterday (Oct 21, 2026, UTC).

When was Pinecone last down?

The latest problem was on Oct 7, 2026, 21:25 UTC and lasted 29 minutes: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize.

What was the biggest Pinecone outage?

Of the incidents on record since Oct 20, 2025, the biggest was on Dec 15, 2025: [Serverless][GCP][europe-west4] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexes. The Pinecone status page rated it "Major" and it lasted 11 hours 23 min.

How often does Pinecone go down?

Pinecone's status page posted 42 incidents since Oct 20, 2025, 4 of them in the last 30 days. Most incidents affect part of the service, not all of it. Uptime from our own checks over the last 90 days: 100%.

Times are UTC. Official incidents are the company's own posts, quoted from the Pinecone status page. Problem periods start when the official status page or our checks first show a problem and end when the service is next found working, so durations are accurate to within a few minutes. Recent outages across all services.