Elasticsearch outage: Elastic Cloud scaling issues in Azure

1. resolvedOct 21, 2026, 03:05 UTC

   Engineers have mitigated an issue affecting the ability to scale existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Serverless projects in Azure. Scaling is working as expected.

2. monitoringOct 20, 2026, 22:27 UTC

   Engineers have identified and mitigated an issue affecting the ability to scale existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Serverless projects in Azure. We are monitoring the issue to ensure operations continue normally.

3. identifiedOct 20, 2026, 21:24 UTC

   We have identified an issue affecting the ability to scale existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Serverless projects in Azure. New project and deployment creation in Azure may be delayed. Engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue.

4. investigatingOct 20, 2026, 20:07 UTC

   We are investigating an issue affecting the ability to scale existing Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Serverless projects in Azure. New project and deployment creation in Azure may be delayed.

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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