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Pinecone outage: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some namespaces

Pinecone reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Dec 5, 2025, 18:36 UTC. It was resolved after 2h 6m.

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Dec 5, 2025, 18:36 UTC
started
Dec 5, 2025, 20:42 UTC
resolved
2h 6m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • GCP us-central1

Timeline

updates from Pinecone's status page ↗
  1. resolvedDec 5, 2025, 20:42 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringDec 5, 2025, 20:01 UTC

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

  3. identifiedDec 5, 2025, 19:33 UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  4. investigatingDec 5, 2025, 18:36 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

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Pinecone outage on Dec 5, 2025: [Serverless][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read operations for some namespaces · APIStatus.watch