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Elasticsearch outage: Elevated Error Rates and Latency โ€” EU West Region

Elasticsearch reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 27, 2026, 11:49 UTC. It was resolved after 51 min.

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Apr 27, 2026, 11:49 UTC
started
Apr 27, 2026, 12:40 UTC
resolved
51 min
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • AWS Paris (eu-west-3) - APM connectivity: AWS eu-west-3
  • AWS Paris (eu-west-3) - Elasticsearch connectivity: AWS eu-west-3
  • AWS Paris (eu-west-3) - Kibana connectivity: AWS eu-west-3
  1. resolvedApr 27, 2026, 12:40 UTC

    The connectivity issues affecting a subset of customers in our AWS EU West (Paris) region have been resolved. Failed probes recovered at 11:36 UTC following remediation of an issue with our underlying cloud infrastructure provider. We are no longer observing any elevated error rates or latency in the region. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will conduct a post-incident review.

  2. monitoringApr 27, 2026, 12:08 UTC

    Our monitoring system reports that AWS EU West 3 (Paris) region ingress layer traffic has recovered to normal levels as of 11:36 UTC and our SLO alerts have resolved. We are continuing to monitor and will update once we are confident the issue is fully resolved.

  3. identifiedApr 27, 2026, 11:57 UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. identifiedApr 27, 2026, 11:49 UTC

    We are currently investigating connectivity issues affecting a subset of customers in our AWS EU West 3 (Paris) region. Some requests may be experiencing elevated latency or failures. Our team is actively investigating, and we are working with our cloud infrastructure provider on the underlying issue. Other regions are not affected at this time. We will provide updates as the situation develops.

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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