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Elasticsearch outage: Increased error rates for microsoft-multilingual-e5-large

Elasticsearch reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 13, 2026, 08:32 UTC. It was resolved after 4d 3h.

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Aug 13, 2026, 08:32 UTC
started
Aug 17, 2026, 11:40 UTC
resolved
4d 3h
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedAug 17, 2026, 11:40 UTC

    The microsoft-multilingual-e5-large model has been retired from the Elastic Inference Service. Requests to this model now return an error. Customers who wish to use this model with Elastic cloud must create a custom inference endpoint using their own API key. See our inference documentation for further details: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-inference

  2. monitoringAug 13, 2026, 18:26 UTC

    Unfortunately, we can no longer support the E5 Multilingual Large model on the Elastic Inference Service due to continued upstream provider issues. Any customers requiring this model should set up custom inference endpoints using their own API keys.

  3. investigatingAug 13, 2026, 14:45 UTC

    We're seeing some improvement in availability but are continuing to monitor the situation. We will follow up with more information in due course.

  4. investigatingAug 13, 2026, 08:32 UTC

    We are seeing elevated error rates from the upstream provider for the microsoft-multilingual-e5-large embedding model. Search embedding requests to this model may fail. We are investigating

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Elasticsearch outage on Aug 13, 2026: Increased error rates for microsoft-multilingual-e5-large · APIStatus.watch