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

Is Pinecone down?

No open incidents

No open incidents in its feed as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The latest, "[Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests" (reported Oct 14, 2026, 14:48 UTC), is marked Resolved.

Read from Pinecone'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 3 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to Pinecone's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.

  1. Oct 14, 2026, 14:48 UTCResolvedMinor impact[Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests

    Incident is resolved.

  2. Oct 7, 2026, 20:40 UTCResolvedMajor impact as last read Oct 14, 2026[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  3. Sep 28, 2026, 04:07 UTCResolvedMinor impact as last read Oct 5, 2026[Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency

    A shared dependency is having issues. Determining mitigation

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