Promised uptime vs actual

35 vendors · 99 services

Elastic Cloud Serverless SLA

Elastic · Databases · promises up to 99.95% · SLA of Sep 12, 2025 · checked 47d ago

4 major outages in the last 365 days. Worst region me-south-1: 3.1 d counted, 99.157% observed against the 99.95% Platinum or Enterprise, which applies per region.

2 of 12 months fell below it (credits are claimed per month). One incident ran past 72 hours; each counts for 72 hours at most (see the method).

Last 90 days: no major outage.

Incidents, last 365 days

DegradedNov 4, 2026
mOLTP PrivateLink connectivity issue
A partial outage or slowdown for 13 h, not counted as downtime.
5 days ago
DegradedOct 23, 2026
Elastic Support Portal is unavailable
A partial outage or slowdown for 2.5 h, not counted as downtime.
2 weeks ago
DegradedOct 22, 2026
403 error when trying to access Autoops in newly created serverless projects
A partial outage or slowdown for 9.5 h, not counted as downtime.
2 weeks ago
DegradedOct 20, 2026
Elastic Cloud scaling issues in Azure
A partial outage or slowdown for 7 h, not counted as downtime.
2 weeks ago
DegradedOct 20, 2026
Degraded availability for some Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless deployments in GCP europe-west2 (London)
A partial outage or slowdown for 15 h, not counted as downtime.
2 weeks ago
DegradedOct 8, 2026
Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1
A partial outage or slowdown on us-central1 for 8.2 h, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
DegradedOct 6, 2026
Delayed Serverless Metrics in Azure UAE North region
A partial outage or slowdown on Azure Infrastructure Health for 3.8 h, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
DegradedSep 23, 2026
Degraded Performance: Cloud Provisioning Delays
A partial outage or slowdown for 2 h, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 17, 2026
AutoOps node metrics temporarily unavailable in some regions
A partial outage or slowdown for 41 min, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
DegradedSep 16, 2026
Elastic Support Portal unavailable
A partial outage or slowdown for 2.4 h, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
DegradedSep 12, 2026
Delayed Metrics in Cloud Console - GCP us-east4
A partial outage or slowdown for 8.4 h, not counted as downtime.
8 weeks ago
DegradedSep 10, 2026
Kibana access restored for UI-assigned Organization Owners on Hosted deployments
A partial outage or slowdown for 21 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedSep 9, 2026
Elastic Agent enrollment/check-in failures on 9.5.3 (and 9.4.6) with Fleet remote Elasticsearch output
A partial outage or slowdown for 72 h, not counted as downtime.
72 h counted, ran 7.6 d2 months ago
DegradedSep 2, 2026
Elevated Error Rates for Specific Models Impacting Elastic Inference Service in EU Regions
A partial outage or slowdown for 0 min, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedSep 1, 2026
Issue impacting services running in GCP us-central1
A partial outage or slowdown on us-central1 for 4.8 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedSep 1, 2026
Replication bug causing slow recoveries
A partial outage or slowdown on Elastic Cloud Hosted for 72 h, not counted as downtime.
72 h counted, ran 30 d2 months ago
DegradedAug 27, 2026
[RESOLVED - 2026-08-26] APM endpoints for serverless projects not available
A partial outage or slowdown for 82 min, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorAug 20, 2026
Elevated Error Rates Affecting Managed OTLP
A minor incident for 1.9 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 20, 2026
Issue when creating Serverless projects in Azure eastus region
A partial outage or slowdown on Elastic Cloud Serverless for 3.6 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 14, 2026
Elasticsearch 9.5.1: false-positive matches in certain boolean queries
A partial outage or slowdown for 72 h, not counted as downtime.
72 h counted, ran 6.3 d2 months ago
DegradedAug 13, 2026
Increased error rates for microsoft-multilingual-e5-large
A partial outage or slowdown for 72 h, not counted as downtime.
72 h counted, ran 4.1 d2 months ago
DegradedAug 13, 2026
Serverless project creation delayed or failing
A partial outage or slowdown on Elastic Cloud Serverless for 4.7 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 6, 2026
GCP asia-south1 high latency
A partial outage or slowdown on asia-south1 for 0 min, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
DegradedAug 5, 2026
Elasticsearch 9.5.0 contains a query-correctness defect
A partial outage or slowdown for 72 h, not counted as downtime.
72 h counted, ran 6.4 d3 months ago
DegradedJul 21, 2026
Metering issue with Elastic Cloud Hosted Deployments
A partial outage or slowdown for 33 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago

Latest 25 of 60.

Major outage time per month

Allowed per month: 22 min

Commitments and credits

99.95%
Platinum or Enterprise
Projects created under a Platinum or Enterprise subscription
Credit: below 99.95%: 10% · below 99%: 30% · below 95%: 100%

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Missed its SLA99.999%
Amazon DynamoDB
AWS promises 99.999% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed 3 d of major outage in the last year.
Observed 99.178% over 365 days
Missed its SLA99.95%
Amazon RDS (Multi-AZ)
AWS promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed 3 d of major outage in the last year.
Observed 99.178% over 365 days
No data99.99%
Lakebase Postgres
Databricks promises 99.99% uptime, with a 5% credit when it misses; its status page has no history this site can read.
Kept its SLA99.95%
Managed Databases
DigitalOcean promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Missed its SLA99.95%
Elastic Cloud Hosted (formerly Elasticsearch Service)
Elastic promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed 3.1 d of major outage in the last year.
Observed 99.157% over 365 days
Missed its SLA99.99%
Cloud SQL
Google Cloud promises 99.99% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed 3.7 h of major outage in the 252 days on file.
Observed 99.939% over 365 days
No data99.995%
Azure SQL Database
Microsoft Azure promises 99.995% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page has no history this site can read.
Missed its SLA99.995%
MongoDB Atlas (database clusters)
MongoDB promises 99.995% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed 60 min of major outage in the last year.
Observed 99.989% over 365 days
Terms, exclusions and sources
Measured
Five-minute Intervals per project; available if at least 1 request returns without HTTP 5xx error listed
Credit cap
100% of the Monthly Subscription Fee (lowest band)
Claim window
Support ticket no later than 10 days following the applicable Error
How to claim
Submit a Support ticket (Service Credit Request) with account, deployment/project, error times and request logs; credit issued as Resources against future consumption
Not covered
Customer's failure to perform its responsibilities under the Subscription Agreement; Suspension or termination by Elastic; Force majeure or Internet access problems; Customer misuse, misconfiguration or insufficient compute capacity sizing; Third-party technology incl. the hosting cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure); Unsupported/deprecated versions, or preview, beta or trial features
Status history
Status history since Sep 22, 2025
make Customer projects on ECS available to the Customer with a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.95% ("Availability Target")
Elastic, Version Date: September 12, 2025. Read the SLA

Same credit schedule as Hosted. Credits are only issued if the month's fee exceeds USD$1.

All Elastic SLAsHow this is measured