Grafana Cloud incident: Degraded data source queries

Affected components

• AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-2
• AWS Germany - prod-eu-west-4
• AWS US East (OH) - prod-us-east-2
• GCP Australia - prod-au-southeast-0
• GCP US Central - prod-us-central-4

1. resolvedOct 4, 2026, 18:33 UTC

   Incident started around 15:51 UTC, resolved around 18:11 UTC. After investigation, we found that no customer queries were affected; only our internal metrics systems were impacted.

2. investigatingOct 4, 2026, 18:20 UTC

   We are investigating reduced query throughput for some data source plugins in multiple regions. Some queries may fail or be slow.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Grafana Cloud's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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