Grafana Cloud incident: US Central Region Instability

Affected components

• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-0: Ingestion
• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-0: Metrics Generator
• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-0: Querying
• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-5: Ingestion
• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-5: Querying

1. resolvedSep 4, 2026, 23:00 UTC

   The US Central region is fully recovered now and the issue is now resolved.

2. monitoringSep 4, 2026, 18:58 UTC

   The underlying cloud provider issue is not yet fully resolved, but our systems have recovered and affected Grafana Cloud stacks are loading normally again. Some customers may still see brief intermittent slowness. We are continuing to monitor until our provider confirms resolution.

3. identifiedSep 4, 2026, 16:45 UTC

   We’re currently investigating an issue affecting the us central region due to ongoing cloud provider incident. Multiple components impacted. Our team is actively working on this. Thank you for your patience.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Grafana Cloud'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 Grafana Cloud have incidents?

Grafana Cloud reported 41 incidents in the last 90 days, 15 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 29m. See Grafana Cloud's uptime and incident history