Major impactResolvedSearch

Elasticsearch outage: Connection issue to Kibana via the Cloud UI SSO

Elasticsearch reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 9, 2026, 15:37 UTC. It was resolved after 20h 14m.

Right now Elasticsearch is operational. Live Elasticsearch status →

🔔 Get alerted when Elasticsearch has issuesFree · email alerts · no credit card
Apr 9, 2026, 15:37 UTC
started
Apr 10, 2026, 11:51 UTC
resolved
20h 14m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedApr 10, 2026, 11:51 UTC

    We have confirmed no further impact from this incident, and are now marking it as resolved.

  2. investigatingApr 9, 2026, 19:50 UTC

    We have rolled out the fix and there should be no more customer impact

  3. investigatingApr 9, 2026, 16:41 UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. We will update again in 3 hours or earlier.

  4. investigatingApr 9, 2026, 16:21 UTC

    We have identified that only PrivateLink customers are impacted and no other Hosted Cloud Deployments should see any issues.

  5. investigatingApr 9, 2026, 15:37 UTC

    We are aware of an issue when connecting to Kibana through the Elastic Cloud UI via SAML SSO, impacting hosted Cloud deployments. Our team is actively investigating. We will post an update to this status within the next hour.

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.

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 Apr 9, 2026: Connection issue to Kibana via the Cloud UI SSO · APIStatus.watch