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Pinecone outage: Intermittent unavailability across all environments for some indexes

Pinecone reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Jan 2, 2026, 16:31 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 27m.

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Jan 2, 2026, 16:31 UTC

started

Jan 2, 2026, 17:58 UTC

resolved

1h 27m

duration

Major

impact

Affected components

AWS eu-west-1
AWS us-east-1
AWS us-west-2
Assistant
Azure eastus2
Console
GCP europe-west4
GCP us-central1
Index Management
Inference
asia-northeast1-gcp
asia-southeast1-gcp
asia-southeast1-gcp-free
eastus-azure
eu-west1-gcp
eu-west4-gcp
gcp-starter
northamerica-northeast1-gcp
us-central1-gcp
us-east-1-aws
us-east1-gcp
us-east4-gcp
us-west1-gcp
us-west1-gcp-free
us-west4-gcp

Timeline

updates from Pinecone's status page ↗

resolvedJan 2, 2026, 17:58 UTC
This incident has been resolved.
monitoringJan 2, 2026, 17:18 UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
investigatingJan 2, 2026, 16:31 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.

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

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