Grafana Cloud incident: Intermittent Metric Write Errors in GCP US Central (prod-us-central-0)

1. resolvedSep 14, 2026, 15:30 UTC

   Between 15:31 and 20:43 UTC on September 14, 2026 (approximately 5 hours 12 minutes), some customers in GCP US Central (prod-us-central-0) may have experienced intermittent errors or delays when writing metrics. This has been fully resolved and all services are operating normally.

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