Pinecone outage: [SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests

Affected components

• GCP us-central1

1. resolvedAug 25, 2026, 16:11 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. monitoringAug 25, 2026, 16:11 UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

3. investigatingAug 25, 2026, 15:50 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