Promised uptime vs actual

35 vendors · 99 services

Pinecone SLA

Data · 1 of 1 services with an SLA · up to 99.95% · checked 47d ago

Services

Latest incidents

Status page
MinorNov 3, 2026
[Metrics Endpoint] 5xx Errors on */metrics/discovery
A minor incident on Console, Index Management for 93 min, not counted as downtime.
6 days ago
MinorNov 2, 2026
[Pod-Based Indexes] Stalled control plane operations.
A minor incident on Index Management for 3.3 h, not counted as downtime.
7 days ago
MinorOct 14, 2026
[Inference] 5xx errors on some `llama-text-embed-v2` requests
A minor incident for 0 min, not counted as downtime.
3 weeks ago
DegradedOct 7, 2026
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
A partial outage or slowdown on Index Management for 70 min, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
MinorSep 28, 2026
[Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency
A minor incident on us-east-1 for 14 min, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 22, 2026
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests
A partial outage or slowdown on eu-west-1 for 58 min, not counted as downtime.
6 weeks ago
DegradedSep 17, 2026
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath
A partial outage or slowdown on us-west-2 for 11 h, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
DegradedSep 1, 2026
5xx errors on some control plane operations
A partial outage or slowdown on Console, Index Management, Assistant for 4.6 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
DegradedAug 25, 2026
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
A partial outage or slowdown on us-central1 for 21 min, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
OutageJul 21, 2026
[SERVERLESS][Azure][eastus2] 5xx errors for some namespaces
A major outage on Azure eastus2 for 30 min, counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorJul 20, 2026
[SERVERLESS][AWS][us-east-1] Increased latency and 5xx errors for some indexes
A minor incident on us-east-1 for 75 min, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorJul 12, 2026
[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] Increase in freshness lag for some namespaces
A minor incident on us-east-1 for 4.9 h, not counted as downtime.
4 months ago

Support response times

Plans
Fastest n/aIncluded on all plans
Free
No published response targets.
Fastest n/a
Developer
Sev-1: 8 Business Hours · Sev-2: 12 Business Hours · Sev-3: 2 Business Days · Sev-4: 3 Business Days
Fastest 2 hIncluded with Enterprise plan; add-on otherwise (price not published)
Pro
Sev-1: 2 hours, 24x7x365 · Sev-2: 4 Business Hours · Sev-3: 12 Business Hours · Sev-4: 2 Business Days
Fastest 30 min
Premium
Sev-1: 30 minutes, 24x7x365 · Sev-2: 2 Business Hours · Sev-3: 8 Business Hours · Sev-4: 12 Business Hours

SLA changes

From the change logFeb 28, 2025
Pinecone Database (pod-based and serverless)
Support Policy: the top tier was renamed from 'Enterprise' to 'Premium'. The policy says 'No other changes were made' (support tier naming only, not uptime).
1 year agoSource
About Pinecone

Support Policy last updated February 28, 2025. Business Hours are 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. US Eastern on Business Days. Premium support requires a Premium-eligible Advance Commitment. Add-on prices for Developer and Pro support are not published on the pages fetched.

The vector database, Pinecone Assistant and hosted inference. Source

Highest commitment: Pinecone Database (pod-based and serverless), 99.95% (Enterprise Advance Commitment).

Promise vs reality, last year

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Status history
Status history since Aug 5, 2025