Grafana Cloud outage: Elevated Errors Ingesting Metrics in AWS US East (VA)

Affected components

• AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3

1. resolvedOct 12, 2026, 16:42 UTC

   From 09:45 UTC on 2026-10-12, customers in AWS US East (VA) experienced failed or delayed metric writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, which may have also affected Frontend Observability and Synthetic Monitoring data in that region. This has been fully resolved and all services are operating normally again.

2. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 15:01 UTC

   We have isolated infrastructure suspected of contributing to the metrics ingestion issue in AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3. We are validating recovery and completing mitigation steps. Customers may continue to experience failed or delayed metric writes while this work continues.

3. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 14:01 UTC

   We have isolated infrastructure suspected of contributing to the metrics ingestion issue in AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3. We are validating recovery and completing mitigation steps. Customers may continue to experience failed or delayed metric writes while this work continues.

4. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 12:53 UTC

   We have identified the cause of an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3. Customers may see failed or delayed writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, this may also impact Metrics written by Frontend Observability and/or Synthetic Monitoring. We are continuing to work on mitigations and are monitoring the impact to Grafana Cloud Metrics. Next update by 14:00 UTC.

5. identifiedOct 12, 2026, 11:56 UTC

   We have identified the cause of an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3. Customers may see failed or delayed writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, this may also impact Metrics written by Frontend Observability and/or Synthetic Monitoring. We are continuing to work on mitigations and are monitoring the impact to Grafana Cloud Metrics. Next update by 13:00 UTC.

6. investigatingOct 12, 2026, 10:55 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA). Customers may see failed or delayed writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, this may also impact Metrics written by Frontend Observability and/or Synthetic Monitoring. Next update by 12:00 UTC.

7. investigatingOct 12, 2026, 10:08 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA). Customers may see failed or delayed writes. Next update by 11:00 UTC.

8. investigatingOct 12, 2026, 09:45 UTC

   We are investigating an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA). Customers may see failed or delayed writes. Next update by 10:15 UTC.

What APIStatus.watch saw

• Oct 12, 2026, 09:50 UTCoperational → partial outage
• Oct 12, 2026, 16:42 UTCpartial outage → operational

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How often does Grafana Cloud have incidents?

Grafana Cloud reported 51 incidents in the last 90 days, 16 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 2h 33m. See Grafana Cloud's uptime and incident history