Is Pinecone Down?

This page shows the live Pinecone status so you can confirm in seconds if Pinecone is down.

Pinecone current status

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Pinecone is operational

IsDown pulls data from the official status page every few minutes and collects user-reported Pinecone issues.
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Pinecone user-reported issues in the last 24 hours

This chart displays the number of user-reported Pinecone problems over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.

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Pinecone outage history

IsDown has tracked 98 incidents since started monitoring Pinecone downtimes in May 2023. We are also collecting data from 4000+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage.

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Latest user comments about Pinecone issues

  • S

    Sofia

    It's not working, just buffering with status code 504

  • F

    Ferhat

    can't connect to existing project over API, neither can open the webpage at pinecone.io

  • J

    john

    getting this error PineconeConnectionError Request failed to reach Pinecone. This can occur for reasons such as network problems that prevent the request from being completed, or a Pinecone API outage. Check your network connection, and visit https://status.pinecone.io/ to see whether any outag...

  • V

    Vinayak

    Each of my requests does not reach Pinecone. it is saying "PineconeConnectionError: Request failed to reach Pinecone. This can occur for reasons such as network problems that prevent the request from being completed, or a Pinecone API outage. Check your network connection, and visit https://statu...

  • S

    Sharvil

    Cant connect to index in gcp starter

  • R

    Rafal

    No response or dramatically increased latency

Pinecone outages in the last 30 days

Number of Incidents

8 issues

Last incident

2 days ago

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Having problems with Pinecone? What can you do?

  1. First, stay calm.

    • We know it's stressful when Pinecone is down, but running around is not going to fix it.
    • Remember that it's normal for services to go down sometimes. It can be for a number of reasons, from maintenance to unexpected issues.

  2. Make a quick evaluation of the impact of the Pinecone outage

    • Try to evaluate the impact of the outage on your business. Is it impacting a majority of your users or just a few?
    • Did Pinecone already acknowledge the issue? And published a status update? (You can find it in the top of the page or in Pinecone status page)
    • If not, understand if other users are also experiencing issues. You can also check this information on the top of the page.

  3. Communicate with your team and users quickly

    • If Pinecone is having problems and impacting your business, it's important to keep your team and users informed.
    • Share this page with your team, so you can start incident response procedures. No need for everyone to go around searching for information. Create a post or a specific channel in your internal communication tools (Slack, Teams, Google Chat, etc.) so you can aggregate all the information in one place.
    • If you have a status page, create a status update to inform your users about the issue. This way they know what's going on and you can avoid a flow of support requests overburding your team.

  4. Understand the root cause

    • After the first communication, let's move on to the next step. Do a more thorough investigation to understand the root cause of the issue and impact.
    • Reach out to the service provider to understand if they are aware of the issue and if they are already working on it. You can reach them in their support channels, or their social media channels if they have any.

  5. Is there any mitigation for the issue?

    • Understand if there are workarounds or mitigations for the issue. Can you use a different provider? Is the switch easy to do? Talk with your team to understand the best course of action.
    • Need to wait on the service provider to fix the issue? Understand if there is a timeline for the fix. Adapt your communication with your team and users to the situation. It's very important to keep everyone informed.

  6. Did Pinecone recover?

    • Continue to monitor the situation. A lot of times, the service can see a brief recovery and declare the issue as resolved, but it can come back. Keep monitor for some time to make sure it's really resolved.

  7. Post-incident analysis

    • Once the issue is resolved, it's important to do a post-incident analysis. Understand what went wrong and if it's possible or needed to do something to prevent it from happening again.
    • Sometimes if it's a critical dependency, you might need to have a backup plan in place to avoid a similar issue.
    • Vendors usually publish post-mortem analysis reports, so keep an eye on their social media channels and website for more information.

  8. Prepare for the next incident, because it will happen again

    • Start monitoring your dependencies. Sign up to IsDown and aggregate all your dependencies status in one place.
    • Nowadays, it's very common to have a lot of dependencies, and keeping an eye on them is not an easy task. IsDown can help you with that, by aggregating and monitoring all dependencies status and alerting you if they are having issues. Create status pages to communicate with your team and users.

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Want to be informed about Pinecone status changes?

IsDown offers an easy way to monitor Pinecone with maximum flexibility

Major Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors Pinecone for major outages. A major outage is when Pinecone experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. When Pinecone marks an incident as a major outage, IsDown updates its internal status, the customer status page and dashboard. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Minor Outages Notifications

IsDown monitors Pinecone status page for minor outages. A minor outage is when Pinecone experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. When a minor outage occurs, IsDown updates its internal status and shares that information on the customer status page. Depending on the customer settings, IsDown will also send notifications.

Outage Details

IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Pinecone status page to provide the most accurate information. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.

Maintenance Feed

Pinecone publishes scheduled maintenance events on their status page. IsDown collects all the information for each event and creates a feed that people can follow to ensure they are not surprised by unexpected downtime or problems. We also send the feed in our weekly report, alerting the next maintenances that will take place.

Component Filtering

IsDown monitors Pinecone and all their 20 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.

Early Outage Indicators

Pinecone and other vendors don't always report outages on time. Our crowdsourced status platform helps you stay ahead of outages. Users report issues and outages, sharing details on what problems they are facing. We use that info to provide early signs of outages. This way, even without an official update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Pinecone down today?

Pinecone isn't down. You can check Pinecone status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Pinecone official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current Pinecone status?

Pinecone is currently operational. You can check Pinecone status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Pinecone outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Pinecone slow today?

Currently there's no report of Pinecone being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Pinecone outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Pinecone official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

When was the last Pinecone outage?

Pinecone last outage was on May 07, 2025 with the title "[Serverless][AWS][us-east-1] 5xx errors and increased latency for some read operations on some indexes"

Pinecone not working for you? How do I know if Pinecone is down?

How can I check Pinecone status and outages?

Why use IsDown to monitor Pinecone instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Pinecone and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if a service is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information. The integration allows us to provide more details about the outage, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.

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