How often does CockroachDB have outages?

CockroachDB has had 50 reported incidents recently. Visit apistatuscheck.com/incidents/cockroachdb for the complete outage history with timelines and resolution details.

What was the last CockroachDB outage?

The most recent CockroachDB incident was "Advanced cluster creation on AWS taking longer than expected" on February 2, 2026. It was classified as major impact and is currently resolved.

CockroachDB Outage History

50 incidents reported. Data sourced from the official CockroachDB status page.

Total Incidents

Major/Critical

Minor

Resolved

February 2026

Advanced cluster creation on AWS taking longer than expected

major

Feb 2, 04:56 PM→Feb 2, 07:46 PMresolved

Feb 2, 07:46 PM

resolved — We have deployed and verified a fix. Advanced clusters should now create within normal time frames.

Feb 2, 07:31 PM

identified — We are continuing to work on the fix for this issue. Next update will be at 15:00 US/Eastern.

Feb 2, 05:57 PM

identified — We are preparing a fix for deployment, which should restore AWS cluster creation times to normal levels. We will update the status page when the fix is deployed, or by 14:30 US/Eastern with more infor...

+1 more updates

October 2025

Standard and Basic cluster creation on AWS delayed

critical

Oct 31, 03:54 PM→Oct 31, 10:09 PMresolved

Oct 31, 10:09 PM

resolved — All cluster operations are working normally.

Oct 31, 08:18 PM

monitoring — We have resolved the underlying issue that was preventing cluster creation and other cluster operations. We have re-enabled cluster creation on all clouds. We will monitor the situation to ensure that...

Oct 31, 07:58 PM

identified — We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. Next update will be by 4:30 PM US/Eastern time.

+4 more updates

Advanced Cluster Creation Delayed

major

Oct 30, 02:50 PM→Oct 30, 04:05 PMresolved

Oct 30, 04:05 PM

resolved — Cluster creation is operating normally, and all delayed clusters have finished creation.

Oct 30, 03:25 PM

monitoring — We have applied a mitigation and observe that cluster creations are proceeding again. We will monitor all impacted cluster creations to ensure they succeed.

Oct 30, 02:50 PM

investigating — We are investigating errors that cause creation for Advanced clusters to take longer than usual. Standard and Basic cluster creation is operating normally.

AWS us-east-1 outage impacting cluster operations and backups

major

Oct 20, 01:28 PM→Oct 21, 02:56 PMresolved

Oct 21, 02:56 PM

resolved — The earlier AWS outage in the us-east-1 region has been fully resolved. All CockroachDB Cloud operations, including cluster creation, scaling, and backups, are functioning normally again. We’ve verifi...

Oct 20, 10:52 PM

monitoring — AWS has resolved the underlying outage in the us-east-1 region, and we’re seeing recovery across CockroachDB Cloud operations. Cluster creation, scaling, and backups are now succeeding again. We’re co...

Oct 20, 01:28 PM

identified — We’re currently impacted by an ongoing AWS outage in the us-east-1 region. Customers may experience failures or delays when creating new clusters, adding nodes, or running backups in this region. Exis...

September 2025

Google Kubernetes incident impacting cluster operations in GCP.

major

Sep 24, 12:31 PM→Sep 24, 04:00 PMresolved

Sep 24, 04:00 PM

resolved — Google has reported the issue has been resolved and we've verified cluster operations are functional.

Sep 24, 12:31 PM

identified — We are currently experiencing an incident impacting certain cluster operations on Google Cloud Platform due to an known ongoing Google Kubernetes-related issue. Customers may encounter errors when cre...

July 2025

SQL availability impacted across multiple Serverless clusters.

major

Jul 29, 11:08 PM→Jul 29, 11:35 PMresolved

Jul 29, 11:35 PM

resolved — We have confirmed resolution of the incident impacting SQL availability for the affected cluster. SQL availability is restored and the associated cluster is now healthy.

Jul 29, 11:17 PM

monitoring — Correction from the original status update. This issue appears to have been isolated to cluster crl-prod-6rw. We have identified the cause, mitigated and confirmed that cluster availability has return...

Jul 29, 11:08 PM

investigating — We are observing an incident impacting SQL availability across multiple Serverless clusters. We are currently investigating the issue.

Dependent Service incident intermittently impacting CockroachCloud Operations

minor

Jul 21, 09:39 PM→Jul 22, 04:22 AMresolved

Jul 22, 04:22 AM

resolved — LetsEncrypt has indicated the issue has been mitigated. We have validated cluster creation behaviour is now returning to normal.

Jul 21, 09:39 PM

identified — We are aware of an ongoing Incident with dependent service "Let's Encrypt": https://letsencrypt.status.io/, which may impact cluster creation and add region operations for CockroachDB Cloud Advanced c...

Cloud Console and API Planned Maintenance 16:00 - 17:00 UTC

maintenance

Jul 16, 12:30 PM→Jul 16, 04:58 PMresolved

Jul 16, 04:58 PM

resolved — The maintenance has been completed, and the cloud console and API are working normally.

Jul 16, 04:01 PM

identified — Maintenance is beginning now. The next update will be before 17:00 UTC.

Jul 16, 12:30 PM

identified — We will be performing a planned maintenance operation on Cockroach DB Cloud Console and the Cockroach DB Cloud API today from 16:00 - 17:00 UTC. During this time, you may experience errors attempting ...

Cluster operations impaired

major

Jul 3, 04:58 PM→Jul 3, 05:39 PMresolved

Jul 3, 05:39 PM

resolved — We have corrected a misconfiguration which was preventing cluster operations from succeeding. We are monitoring the success of cluster operations already in progress and new operations.

Jul 3, 04:58 PM

investigating — We are investigating an issue that may prevent or delay cluster operations from succeeding.

Cluster operations taking longer than expected

major

Jul 2, 05:42 PM→Jul 2, 08:46 PMresolved

Jul 2, 08:46 PM

resolved — All cluster operations are succeeding normally at this time.

Jul 2, 07:32 PM

monitoring — We continue to see cluster operations succeeding, and will actively monitor to ensure the issue does not reoccur.

Jul 2, 06:50 PM

identified — We have identified the issue preventing cluster operations from proceeding, and we see that operations are moving forward. We will next update this incident by 16:00 EDT.

+1 more updates

June 2025

Issue impacting Basic and Standard tier cluster creation in AWS.

major

Jun 27, 10:29 PM→Jun 27, 10:36 PMresolved

Jun 27, 10:36 PM

resolved — We have identified and rolled out a fix for the issue impacting cluster creation in AWS. This incident is now resolved.

Jun 27, 10:29 PM

identified — We have identified an issue impacting Basic and Standard tier cluster creation in AWS. We have conducted an initial investigation and actively working to resolve the issue.

Upstream cloud provider API is unavailable

major

Jun 12, 06:22 PM→Jun 12, 09:31 PMresolved

Jun 12, 09:31 PM

resolved — Google has reported that mitigations have been applied and services are now recovering.

Jun 12, 07:54 PM

monitoring — Google has updated their public status page to indicate the underlying issue is resolved, and individual Google Cloud services are in the process of restoring full service. We are continuing to monito...

Jun 12, 07:08 PM

identified — In addition to cluster operations, backups to Google Cloud Storage, including managed backups from CockroachDB Cloud clusters on GCP, may be impacted.

+1 more updates

Metrics Pages Unavailable in Cockroach Cloud Console for Basic and Standard Clusters

major

Jun 4, 07:10 PM→Jun 4, 09:35 PMresolved

Jun 4, 09:35 PM

resolved — The issue that was preventing metrics pages from loading in the Cockroach Cloud console for Basic and Standard tier clusters has been fully resolved. Metrics are now loading as expected, and we’ve rec...

Jun 4, 08:19 PM

monitoring — Metrics visualizations are now loading as expected. We are continuing to monitor system behavior to ensure stability and will mark this incident as resolved once we confirm full recovery.

Jun 4, 07:31 PM

identified — We’ve identified the source of the issue that was preventing metrics pages from loading in the Cockroach Cloud console for Basic and Standard tier clusters. The underlying service has recovered, and m...

+1 more updates

A brief network disruption affecting clusters in the AWS eu-west-1, eu-west-2, and eu-central-1 regions.

major

Jun 1, 07:29 AM→Jun 1, 07:29 AMresolved

Jun 2, 07:45 AM

resolved — Incident Start AWS experienced a brief network blip in the eu-west-1, eu-west-2, and eu-central-1 regions. Clusters in these regions were unavailable between June 1, 19:29–19:35 UTC. Incident End Th...

November 2024

Elevated error rate for some Standard and Basic clusters

major

Nov 19, 04:48 PM→Nov 19, 06:36 PMresolved

Nov 19, 06:36 PM

resolved — The Engineering team has isolated and resolved the elevated error rate for all affected clusters.

Nov 19, 05:06 PM

monitoring — The root cause of the issue was identified and resolved. Engineering is monitoring the situation.

Nov 19, 04:48 PM

investigating — We have received alerts indicating elevated error rates on isolated Standard and Basic clusters. The Engineering team is currently investigating the issue.

Elevated errors on serverless platform

none

Nov 12, 01:00 AM→Nov 12, 01:00 AMresolved

Nov 13, 04:24 PM

resolved — On Tuesday Nov 12, at approximately 1am UTC, we received alerts of elevated errors due to an underlying host hardware failure. The workloads on this host were migrated to a healthy host and the errors...

October 2024

AWS Advanced cluster creation delayed

minor

Oct 24, 07:00 PM→Oct 24, 09:05 PMresolved

Oct 24, 09:15 PM

resolved — The upstream incident has been resolved, and we have confirmed that cluster creation is working normally.

Oct 24, 08:06 PM

identified — We are continuing to monitor the upstream incident.

Oct 24, 08:04 PM

identified — We are aware of an AWS incident that is preventing successful completion of Advanced cluster creation and region addition. Once the cloud provider has resolved their incident, we will ensure clusters ...

September 2024

Small number of serverless clusters unavailable

minor

Sep 25, 02:15 PM→Sep 25, 02:30 PMresolved

Sep 25, 02:35 PM

resolved — We have deployed a mitigation and all clusters are available again.

Sep 25, 02:27 PM

investigating — We are aware of an issue affecting a small number of serverless clusters that is causing unavailability. Our SRE team is investigating.

Some AWS clusters not showing available backups on the "Backup and Restore" page

minor

Sep 18, 07:24 PM→Sep 18, 09:33 PMresolved

Sep 18, 09:33 PM

resolved — We have deployed a fix which has resolved the issue.

Sep 18, 07:24 PM

identified — We have identified an issue where some AWS clusters are unable to list available backups on the "Backups and Restore" page. Backups are still being performed and available if a restore of a database o...

August 2024

Increased error rate in Serverless restore operations

major

Aug 9, 09:37 PM→Aug 9, 10:33 PMresolved

Aug 9, 10:33 PM

resolved — We have corrected a misconfiguration that was causing restore errors, and have applied the fix to all serverless clusters.

Aug 9, 09:37 PM

investigating — We are investigating increased errors in restore operations to serverless clusters.

July 2024

CockroachDB Unavailable in Azure Central US

major

Jul 18, 11:20 PM→Jul 19, 03:09 PMresolved

Jul 19, 03:09 PM

resolved — We have now verified that all Azure clusters are operational and have completed backup jobs.

Jul 19, 05:49 AM

monitoring — Latest update from Microsoft status page is all green, with some residual effects. CockroachDB clusters with nodes in Microsoft’s Central US region are all up and running with some background jobs lik...

Jul 18, 11:36 PM

identified — CockroachDB clusters with nodes in Microsoft’s Central US region may be unavailable. We are monitoring the situation and waiting for an update from Microsoft. For more information see Microsoft’s stat...

Dedicated Cluster Operations Errors

major

Jul 18, 01:56 AM→Jul 18, 02:45 PMresolved

Jul 18, 02:45 PM

resolved — Cluster operations and Cloud Console pages are restored to normal working order.

Jul 18, 04:20 AM

monitoring — We have resolved the underlying cause of the outages, and are monitoring to ensure the system remains operational.

Jul 18, 03:41 AM

identified — We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

+4 more updates

June 2024

Azure cluster creation and modification impaired

minor

Jun 18, 08:31 PM→Jun 20, 07:56 PMresolved

Jun 20, 07:56 PM

resolved — Azure is no longer experiencing capacity issues in eastus.

Jun 19, 04:32 PM

monitoring — Due to capacity issues in the Azure East US region, some cluster operations such as cluster creation and modification may fail if East US is the target region.

Jun 18, 11:07 PM

monitoring — Azure cluster creation is now operational. Some existing clusters will be updated during their pre-scheduled maintenance windows to fix cluster modification on those clusters.

+1 more updates

Cluster setting update caused a brief latency increase and availability impact on a single Serverless cluster.

minor

Jun 17, 02:48 PM→Jun 17, 02:48 PMresolved

Jun 17, 05:17 PM

resolved — A cluster setting update resulted in higher than expected CPU activity, which caused increased latency and caused unavailability for a single Serverless cluster. The setting was rolled back to prevent...

May 2024

Intermittent failures when creating Azure CC dedicated clusters

minor

May 17, 07:24 PM→May 18, 12:58 PMresolved

May 18, 12:58 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

May 17, 07:24 PM

monitoring — Azure is currently experiencing capacity issues for VMs in US regions. Users may experience intermittent failures creating clusters. Cockroach Labs is monitoring for errors. Azure notes that users "m...

GCP Networking Outage

major

May 17, 12:42 AM→May 17, 02:01 AMresolved

May 17, 02:01 AM

resolved — The Google Cloud Platform networking issue has been resolved. If you have any questions or concerns please submit a ticket to our support portal.

May 17, 12:42 AM

monitoring — We are aware of an ongoing Google Cloud Platform networking issue. This is impacting a select number of GCP Cockroach Cloud clusters. Cockroach Labs engineers are actively monitoring the situation. M...

February 2024

CockroachDB Cloud Dedicated cluster creation in AWS us-east-1 degraded

minor

Feb 16, 04:04 PM→Feb 16, 09:48 PMresolved

Feb 16, 09:48 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Feb 16, 04:14 PM

monitoring — We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

Feb 16, 04:04 PM

monitoring — We are currently monitoring an incident with AWS firehose creation in `us-east-1` that is causing cluster creation in `us-eastt-1` to take longer than normal. There is no impact to existing clusters. ...

January 2024

Degraded connectivity between clusters and external services.

minor

Jan 24, 04:51 AM→Jan 24, 04:05 PMresolved

Jan 24, 04:05 PM

resolved — Fix deployed on all affected clusters. CockroachDB Dedicated is mitigated as well. All services back to normal and incident closed.

Jan 24, 10:56 AM

identified — Fix has been identified and deployment to impacted clusters in progress. All CockroachDB Serverless environments are mitigated now.

Jan 24, 07:00 AM

identified — We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

+1 more updates

Clusters on Azure may be experiencing instability

minor

Jan 19, 12:29 AM→Jan 19, 01:30 AMresolved

Jan 19, 01:30 AM

resolved — We have replaced the failing nodes and all clusters are stable now.

Jan 19, 12:29 AM

investigating — Some customers on Azure may be experiencing instability with their clusters, but all clusters remain up and functional at this time.

December 2023

Failures on cluster operations

major

Dec 22, 02:01 AM→Dec 23, 02:46 AMresolved

Dec 23, 02:46 AM

resolved — All cluster operations should now succeed. We are monitoring for any additional failures.

Dec 22, 10:27 PM

monitoring — Vertical scaling of clusters on AWS may take longer than expected.

Dec 22, 05:07 PM

identified — We've identified a root cause and are working on a solution. Current impact is limited to vertical scaling of AWS clusters only.

+1 more updates

November 2023

Severless clusters in GCP europe-west1 inaccessible

major

Nov 21, 12:00 PM→Nov 21, 12:00 PMresolved

Nov 21, 02:14 PM

resolved — Serverless clusters in GCP europe-west1 were inaccessible.

Cluster operations failing due to quay.io registry outage

minor

Nov 14, 09:53 PM→Nov 14, 11:35 PMresolved

Nov 14, 11:35 PM

resolved — Cluster operations appear to once again be healthy. We will continue to monitor for subsequent events/impacts due to the ongoing Quay.io issue.

Nov 14, 09:53 PM

monitoring — The Quay.io container registry is experiencing issues at the moment. CockroachDB Cloud is monitoring updates - https://status.quay.io/

October 2023

Single sign-on to console is failing

major

Oct 30, 08:25 PM→Oct 30, 08:36 PMresolved

Oct 30, 08:36 PM

resolved — The upstream provider incident has been resolved, and SSO authentication is working again.

Oct 30, 08:25 PM

monitoring — Due to an upstream provider outage, all authentication methods for the Cockroach Cloud console are failing, other than authenticating via username and password. Existing sessions will continue to work...

Cluster operations failing due to quay.io registry outage

none

Oct 13, 04:06 PM→Oct 13, 05:14 PMresolved

Oct 13, 05:14 PM

resolved — Quay.io has indicated that the incident is resolved on their end.

Oct 13, 05:12 PM

monitoring — A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Oct 13, 04:06 PM

identified — The Quay.io container registry is experiencing issues at the moment. Cockroach Cloud is monitoring updates - https://status.quay.io/incidents/3dq7w1tvs16f?u=bcn3g37v5rgb

September 2023

AWS is experiencing networking issues in the us-east-1 region

minor

Sep 28, 09:09 PM→Sep 29, 02:33 PMresolved

Sep 29, 02:33 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Sep 29, 02:32 PM

monitoring — We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

Sep 28, 09:09 PM

monitoring — We've been advised of a networking issue in the AWS us-east-1 region that may affect cluster creation. We're currently waiting on an update from AWS for an estimated recovery time. https://health.aws...

Connectivity Issues

major

Sep 8, 03:47 PM→Sep 8, 05:01 PMresolved

Sep 8, 05:01 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Sep 8, 04:09 PM

monitoring — A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Sep 8, 03:50 PM

investigating — We are continuing to investigate this issue.

+1 more updates

August 2023

Some serverless clusters may be unable to restore backups

minor

Aug 11, 04:45 PM→Aug 12, 04:50 PMresolved

Aug 12, 04:50 PM

resolved — Incident has been resolved.

Aug 12, 04:13 PM

monitoring — Incident has been mitigated and we are currently monitoring.

Aug 11, 05:57 PM

identified — We've identified the root cause and are currently working on a mitigation.

+1 more updates

Serverless intermittent connection failures

major

Aug 3, 01:12 AM→Aug 3, 03:53 AMresolved

Aug 3, 03:53 AM

resolved — Our engineers have deployed a fix and the issue is now resolved

Aug 3, 01:12 AM

investigating — Serverless clusters are experiencing intermittent connection failures in the AWS us-east-1 region.

Serverless Cluster Resource Limit Throttling

major

Aug 2, 04:05 PM→Aug 2, 07:44 PMresolved

Aug 2, 07:44 PM

resolved — This issue has now been resolved. Users with clusters that were previously throttled will now see their changes to resource limits reflected.

Aug 2, 07:02 PM

identified — The scope of the impact has been limited to serverless clusters running AWS eu-west-1 and AWS ap-south-1. Clusters that have hit their resource limits will be throttled despite having their limits inc...

Aug 2, 04:10 PM

investigating — Some Serverless clusters that have hit their resource limits are still being throttled even after limits have been increased.

+1 more updates

July 2023

Serverless clients unable to access GCP Multi-Region Serverless Public Preview hosts

major

Jul 25, 09:55 PM→Jul 25, 11:07 PMresolved

Jul 25, 11:07 PM

resolved — Issues impacting GCP Multi-Region Serverless Public Preview host cluster connectivity are now resolved.

Jul 25, 10:55 PM

identified — We have identified the issue impacting connectivity to Serverless clusters on GCP Multi-Region Serverless Public Preview host and are currently working towards resolution.

Jul 25, 09:55 PM

investigating — Serverless customers may experience issues when connecting to serverless clusters running on the GCP Multi-Region Serverless Public Preview host. Other serverless clusters continue to be fully functio...

Intermittent failures when creating CC dedicated clusters on Azure

minor

Jul 18, 03:15 PM→Jul 18, 04:14 PMresolved

Jul 18, 04:14 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Jul 18, 03:24 PM

identified — We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

Jul 18, 03:15 PM

identified — Azure is currently experiencing capacity issues for certain VM sizes in eastus2 and westeurope. Cockroach Labs is working with support to fully diagnose and mitigate any errors.

Intermittent failures when creating CC dedicated clusters on Azure

none

Jul 11, 03:28 PM→Jul 11, 11:14 PMresolved

Jul 11, 11:14 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Jul 11, 03:28 PM

identified — Azure is currently experiencing capacity issues for certain VM sizes in eastus2 and westeurope. Cockroach Labs is working with support to fully diagnose and mitigate any errors.

June 2023

Intermittent failures when creating CC dedicated clusters on Azure

none

Jun 14, 10:24 PM→Jun 15, 01:57 PMresolved

Jun 15, 01:57 PM

resolved — We're no longer seeing elevated error rates for Azure clusters.

Jun 14, 10:24 PM

identified — The issue has been identified and Cockroach Labs is working with Azure to fully diagnose and mitigate any errors.

Multi-Region Serverless Degraded Performance

minor

Jun 13, 02:15 PM→Jun 14, 12:54 AMresolved

Jun 14, 12:54 AM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Jun 14, 12:51 AM

monitoring — A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Jun 13, 05:43 PM

identified — The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

+2 more updates

AWS us-east-1 seeing elevated errors

major

Jun 13, 08:13 PM→Jun 13, 11:24 PMresolved

Jun 13, 11:24 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Jun 13, 09:55 PM

monitoring — Cluster creation is still delayed or failing un AWS us-east-1 regions.

Jun 13, 09:22 PM

monitoring — AWS us-east-1 appears to be recovering and we are seeing recovery of impacted systems. Please see https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status for details

+1 more updates

May 2023

Cluster creation on AWS failing in some regions

minor

May 24, 12:13 AM→May 24, 03:12 AMresolved

May 24, 03:12 AM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

May 24, 02:47 AM

monitoring — A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

May 24, 02:27 AM

identified — The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

+3 more updates

Multi-Region Serverless Clusters Are Experiencing Connection Issues

major

May 23, 06:51 PM→May 23, 07:15 PMresolved

May 23, 07:15 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

May 23, 07:07 PM

monitoring — A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

May 23, 06:56 PM

identified — The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

+1 more updates

Partial outage for Serverless clusters in us-east-1.

major

May 17, 09:00 PM→May 17, 11:00 PMresolved

May 18, 12:51 AM

resolved — Partial outage for Serverless clusters in us-east-1. Some users may be unable to connect to their clusters.

April 2023

Edit cluster currently disabled.

minor

Apr 28, 06:23 PM→Apr 28, 09:23 PMresolved

Apr 28, 09:23 PM

resolved — This incident has been resolved.

Apr 28, 09:03 PM

monitoring — Cluster edit is re-enabled and should be functioning as expected. We are currently validating GKE cluster creation.

Apr 28, 06:35 PM

identified — We are currently investigating issues related to Edit Cluster and GKE cluster creation. Edit Cluster functionality is currently disabled. GKE cluster creation is currently failing. No other stability ...

+1 more updates

March 2023

Elevated error rate for GCP cluster creation

minor

Mar 24, 08:52 PM→Mar 27, 03:34 PMresolved

Mar 27, 03:34 PM

resolved — No further instances of related job failures were observed while monitoring over the past 48 hours.

Mar 24, 10:18 PM

monitoring — We have identified the likely cause of the issue. We have confirmed this is isolated to specific GCP regions with limited reach. We are continuing to monitor the situation.

Mar 24, 08:52 PM

investigating — We are observing an elevated error rate for cluster creation in GCP. We are currently investigating the issue.

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