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Is Pinecone down right now?

No, it’s up.

Pinecone appears to be up and running normally.

checked responded in 98msHTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Pinecone has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~109 ms. According to Pinecone's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-07-21 19:10 UTC and lasted 29m (severity: down). It was reported as "[SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces".

Pinecone is a managed vector database used for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation. Because RAG pipelines query it on every request, an outage tends to appear as an AI product returning answers with no grounding or failing entirely, rather than as a database error a user ever sees.

Response time (last 24h)
Last 24hpeak 718 ms
Incident history (last 90 days)
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10 of the incidents below were reported by Pinecone on days we were not yet monitoring, so the timeline above leaves those days hatched rather than colouring them in.

DateWhat happenedDurationSeverity
[SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespacesReported by Pinecone29mDown
[SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexesReported by Pinecone1h 15mDegraded
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespacesReported by Pinecone4h 54mDegraded
[Serverless][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors on some requests for some indexesReported by Pinecone4h 47mDown
Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty resultsReported by Pinecone8h 22mDegraded
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesReported by Pinecone3h 35mDown
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] Read path operations for some indexes may experience elevated latency and timeoutsReported by Pinecone2h 44mDegraded
[AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors for some requests on some indexesReported by Pinecone26mDegraded
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors and longer response times on upsert requests for some indexes.Reported by Pinecone1h 18mDown
[AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors on read and write operations for some indexesReported by Pinecone1h 1mDown
Uptime
100.00%
7 days
100.00%
30 days
100.00%
90 days
What to do if Pinecone is down for just you
  • Check your connection limit and pool settings first, since exhausting connections looks exactly like the database being down.
  • Retry with a longer timeout, because a serverless or scale-to-zero instance may simply be waking up.
  • Confirm your credentials and IP allowlist have not changed, as an auth or firewall denial reads as a failed query.
  • Query from another network or client to establish whether the cluster or your route to it is the problem.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pinecone down right now?
Pinecone appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-08-05 06:54 UTC (3 minutes ago).
When was Pinecone's last outage?
According to Pinecone's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-07-21 19:10 UTC and lasted 29m (severity: down). It was reported as "[SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces".
What should I do if Pinecone is down for me?
Check your connection limit and pool settings first, since exhausting connections looks exactly like the database being down. Retry with a longer timeout, because a serverless or scale-to-zero instance may simply be waking up. Confirm your credentials and IP allowlist have not changed, as an auth or firewall denial reads as a failed query. Query from another network or client to establish whether the cluster or your route to it is the problem.
Pinecone’s official status page

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