Elasticsearch outage: Temporarily unavailability of Serverless Projects Functionality

Affected components

• Elasticsearch Availability

1. resolvedMay 11, 2026, 11:11 UTC

   We have confirmed no further impact from this incident, and are now considering this issue resolved. Thank you for your patience.

2. monitoringMay 11, 2026, 08:00 UTC

   We are aware of issues resulting in temporary unavailability across multiple Serverless projects. From 08:00 UTC to 09:40 UTC on May 11, Search, Ingest and EIS functionality may have been unavailable. The root cause of this issue has been identified and resolved - we are currently monitoring, and expect no further impact.

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