Pinecone outage: 5xx errors on some control plane operations

Affected components

• Assistant
• Console
• Index Management

1. resolvedSep 1, 2026, 19:40 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringSep 1, 2026, 17:00 UTC

   Error rates have subsided, we are monitoring the results.

3. investigatingSep 1, 2026, 15:39 UTC

   This is likely related to ongoing issues in GCP. Affected services include Console, Index management, Assistant management, and APIs served at api.pinecone.io

4. investigatingSep 1, 2026, 15:04 UTC

   We are currently investigating this issue.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

Pinecone reported 9 incidents in the last 90 days, 6 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 15m. See Pinecone's uptime and incident history