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Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Is Grafana Cloud down?

No open incidents

No open incidents in its feed as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The latest, "Metric reads and rule evaluations are degraded in mimir-prod-66" (reported Oct 16, 2026, 21:05 UTC), is marked Resolved.

Read from Grafana Cloud's own status feed when this page was built, Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The paper rebuilds it with each edition, once a day at 10:00 UTC, so it is not live: for the state right now, open the official status page.

Recent incidents

The newest 10 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to Grafana Cloud's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.

  1. Oct 16, 2026, 21:05 UTCResolvedMinor impactMetric reads and rule evaluations are degraded in mimir-prod-66

    We’re currently investigating an issue affecting metrics reads and rule evaluations in mimir-prod-66. Our team is actively working to identify the cause. Thank you for your patience.

  2. Oct 15, 2026, 16:10 UTCResolvedMajor impactTempo Write Failures in prod-us-central-0

    We are investigating Intermittent write failures in tempo-prod (prod-us-central-0) due to Google Cloud Storage internal errors.

  3. Oct 15, 2026, 14:35 UTCResolvedMinor impactTempo: High Latency in prod-eu-west-2

    We observed some spikes in latency starting at approximately 12:50 UTC. We are working on a resolution. Next update by 15:30 UTC

  4. Oct 14, 2026, 12:57 UTCResolvedMinor impactAuthentication errors in prod-us-west-0

    We are investigating increased authentication errors affecting Grafana Cloud in the prod-us-west-0 region. Customers may experience intermittent failures for requests that require authentication. Our engineering team has identified database performance degradation affecting the a…

  5. Oct 13, 2026, 19:55 UTCResolvedMinor impactErrors when querying Prometheus datasource

    A small number of customers with stacks in prod-us-central-4 are receiving "forbidden" errors when querying Prometheus data sources. We are investigating and will provide an update soon.

  6. Oct 13, 2026, 09:23 UTCInvestigatingMinor impact as last read Oct 16, 2026Phone call notifications to numbers in Russia and Kazakhstan are blocked

    Phone call notifications to numbers in Russia and Kazakhstan are currently blocked. We are working to resolve the issue. As SMS support is limited in these countries, we recommend using mobile push notifications as an alternative. We do not currently have an estimated resolution…

  7. Oct 12, 2026, 09:45 UTCResolvedMajor impact as last read Oct 15, 2026Elevated Errors Ingesting Metrics in AWS US East (VA)

    We are investigating an issue affecting metrics ingestion for Grafana Cloud Metrics customers in AWS US East (VA). Customers may see failed or delayed writes. Next update by 10:15 UTC.

  8. Oct 5, 2026, 16:17 UTCIdentifiedMinor impact as last read Oct 12, 2026IRM Unable to Send SMS to Thailand, Bangladesh, and Austrian Numbers

    We are continuing working on a resolution, and will provide another update as soon as we have more information to share. In the meantime we recommend, affected users to configure mobile push or phone calls as notifications.

  9. Oct 4, 2026, 18:20 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 11, 2026Degraded data source queries

    We are investigating reduced query throughput for some data source plugins in multiple regions. Some queries may fail or be slow.

  10. Oct 2, 2026, 10:03 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 8, 2026Elevated Write Latency and Errors for Grafana Cloud Logs in Azure Netherlands

    We are investigating elevated write latency and intermittent errors affecting Grafana Cloud Logs in Azure Netherlands. Customers may see delayed log ingestion and some failed write requests. Next update by 11:30 UTC.

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