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Elasticsearch outage: Metering issue with Elastic Cloud Hosted Deployments

Elasticsearch reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Jul 21, 2026, 14:24 UTC. It was resolved after 1d 8h.

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Jul 21, 2026, 14:24 UTC
started
Jul 22, 2026, 23:14 UTC
resolved
1d 8h
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedJul 22, 2026, 23:14 UTC

    All metering errors have been corrected. We will be issuing refunds to the small number of affected customers.

  2. investigatingJul 22, 2026, 10:49 UTC

    We are still investigating the metering issue impacting a small number of customers. We'll provide a further update when new information is available.

  3. investigatingJul 21, 2026, 23:15 UTC

    We are still investigating the metering issue impacting a small number of customers. We will proactively issue billing corrections where necessary. We'll provide another update when new information is available.

  4. investigatingJul 21, 2026, 14:24 UTC

    We have identified an issue with our metering of Instance Capacity for Hosted Deployments that affects a subset of customers. We currently believe the impact to be limited to a small number of customers but are still working to identify and correct all occurrences of this issue. We will proactively issue billing corrections where necessary.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Elasticsearch's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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How often does Elasticsearch have incidents?

Elasticsearch reported 23 incidents in the last 90 days, 20 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 3h 35m. See Elasticsearch's uptime and incident history

Elasticsearch outage on Jul 21, 2026: Metering issue with Elastic Cloud Hosted Deployments · APIStatus.watch