Use cases
Software Products E-commerce MSPs Schools Development & Marketing DevOps Agencies Help Desk
Company
Internet Status Blog Pricing Log in Get started free

Outage in Snowflake

INC20000158

Resolved Major
August 14, 2026 - Started about 10 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

**Snowflake Snowsight Outage – August 14, 2026** A routine performance optimization configuration change caused elevated latency in Snowflake's metadata layer, resulting in a ~1 hour 7 minute outage (17:05–18:12 UTC) during which customers were unable to access Snowsight and received "503 Service Unavailable" errors. The misconfiguration was identified, reverted, and affected infrastructure was restarted to restore service. Total incident duration, including monitoring, was approximately 2.2 hours.

Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may be unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Affected users may be unable to sign in and may observe "503 Service Unavailable" errors. Incident start time: 17:05 UTC August 14, 2026

Trusted by 1,000+ teams

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

Stop finding out about outages from your users. Monitor 6,320+ cloud services and get alerted the second something breaks.

IsDown status aggregator dashboard
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 8 hours ago - at 08/14/2026 07:35PM

Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight.

Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may be unable to access or use Snowsight and may observe "503 Service Unavailable" errors.

Incident start time: 17:05 UTC August 14, 2026
Incident end time: 18:12 UTC August 14, 2026

Preliminary root cause: A routine system configuration change intended to optimize performance caused elevated latency in the metadata layer, resulting in service disruptions. Once identified, the configuration was reverted and affected service infrastructure was restarted to restore service.

A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be shared on the Snowflake status page within 5 business days.

MONITORING about 9 hours ago - at 08/14/2026 06:30PM

Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly.

Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may have been unable to access or use Snowsight and may have seen "503 Service Unavailable" errors.

Incident start time: 17:05 UTC August 14, 2026
Incident end time: 18:12 UTC August 14, 2026

Preliminary root cause: A routine system configuration change intended to optimize performance caused elevated latency in the metadata layer, resulting in service disruptions. Once identified, the configuration was reverted and affected service infrastructure was restarted to restore service.

IDENTIFIED about 10 hours ago - at 08/14/2026 05:58PM

Current status: We've identified a system configuration issue affecting Snowsight, and we're implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 30 minutes.

Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may be unable to access or use Snowsight and may observe "503 Service Unavailable" errors.

ETA: Our current estimate is that service will be restored within 30 minutes.

Workaround: There are currently no available workarounds for this issue.

Incident start time: 17:05 UTC August 14, 2026

INVESTIGATING about 10 hours ago - at 08/14/2026 05:29PM

Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes.

Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may be unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Affected users may be unable to sign in and may observe "503 Service Unavailable" errors.

Incident start time: 17:05 UTC August 14, 2026

Latest Snowflake outages

INC20000157 - about 12 hours ago
INC20000139 - 10 days ago
INC20000129 - 12 days ago
INC20000128 - 12 days ago
INC20000115 - 16 days ago

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.

Start free trial

No credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available

Integrations with Slack Microsoft Teams Google Chat Datadog PagerDuty Zapier Discord Webhook