Outage report · Partial outage

Grafana Cloud outage on Oct 12, 2026

Elevated Errors Ingesting Metrics in AWS US East (VA)

SeverityPartial outage
StartedOct 12, 2026, 09:45UTC
ResolvedOct 12, 2026, 16:42UTC
Duration6h 57m

What happened

Grafana Cloud reported a partial outage starting Oct 12, 2026, 09:45 UTC, affecting AWS US East (VA) - prod-us-east-3. It was marked resolved at Oct 12, 2026, 16:42 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 6h 57m from first report to resolution.
  • Grafana Cloud had reported 20 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 3 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Grafana Cloud

From 09:45 UTC on 2026-10-12, customers in AWS US East (VA) experienced failed or delayed metric writes to Grafana Cloud Metrics, which may have also affected Frontend Observability and Synthetic Monitoring data in that region. This has been fully resolved and all services are operating normally again.

Read Grafana Cloud's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Grafana Cloud started after this incident, so this report is based on Grafana Cloud's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

Grafana Cloud's overall reliability

33.1/100

Grafana Cloud has a reliability score of 33.1/100, with 96.91% effective uptime and 64 incidents over the last 90 days.

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