Elasticsearch outage: Delayed Execution For Synthetic Monitors in Europe Germany

1. resolvedMay 22, 2026, 04:54 UTC

   Synthetics browser monitors running in Europe-Germany region (GCP europe-west3) for some of the users were experiencing delayed executions results and some of them being stopped. The issue affected both Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless in that region and other regions were not impacted.

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.

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

• Linode: [DirtyFrag] Linux Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityMinor · May 8, 2026, 13:40 UTC
• Linode: [Fragnesia] Linux Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityMinor · May 13, 2026, 21:02 UTC
• Akamai: Reporting Issues affecting URL Traffic and URL Responses reportsMinor · May 19, 2026, 10:13 UTC
• Snyk: Snyk Tests for Gradle projects DegradationMinor · May 22, 2026, 02:29 UTC
• Amplitude: Application Performance DegradationMinor · May 22, 2026, 02:51 UTC

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