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Pinecone outage: [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some read and write operations

Pinecone reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 21, 2025, 17:57 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 27m.

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Oct 21, 2025, 17:57 UTC
started
Oct 21, 2025, 19:24 UTC
resolved
1h 27m
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Azure eastus2

Timeline

updates from Pinecone's status page ↗
  1. resolvedOct 21, 2025, 19:24 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringOct 21, 2025, 19:03 UTC

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

  3. identifiedOct 21, 2025, 18:36 UTC

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

  4. investigatingOct 21, 2025, 17:57 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 Oct 21, 2025: [Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some read and write operations · APIStatus.watch