Current answer
Pinecone experienced a major incident: 5xx errors on some control plane operations. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Sep 1, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Console
Index Management
Assistant
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
Error rates have subsided, we are monitoring the results.
Sep 1, 2026 at 7:03 PM UTC
Investigating
This is likely related to ongoing issues in GCP. Affected services include Console, Index management, Assistant management, and APIs served at api.pinecone.io
Sep 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
Sep 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM UTC
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