Grafana Cloud outage: Hardware failure on CSP within prod-us-west-0

1. resolvedMay 6, 2026, 05:30 UTC

   We observed an underlying hardware failure on our CSP which triggered an automatic live VM migration. The situation caused a degradation in write performance for Grafana Cloud Metrics on prod-us-west-0 between 05:26 UTC and 05:43 UTC

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