Is Pinecone Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 419ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://status.pinecone.io
Pinecone uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 2 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
Reachability by region
Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.
What Pinecone does
Pinecone is a managed vector database used to store embeddings and run similarity search, most often behind retrieval-augmented generation features in AI products. Applications write vectors to an index and query it on every user request, so it sits in the hot path of a chatbot or a search feature rather than in a nightly batch job.
What an outage looks like
Queries return errors or hang, and the AI feature built on top answers without its retrieved context or fails outright. Upserts are rejected, so new documents never become searchable. The console may load while indexes are unreachable, or the reverse, because Console and Index Management are tracked apart from the indexes themselves.
What to do about it
Check status.pinecone.io and match the row to your index type and region: Serverless Indexes and Pod Indexes are separate components, each broken out by cloud region such as AWS us-east-1 or GCP europe-west4. Inference and Assistant are listed apart again. Applications that treat retrieval as optional degrade to answering without context, which usually beats failing the whole request.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says Pinecone is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.
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Pinecone outage FAQ
Is my data lost if Pinecone goes down?
Does a Pinecone outage affect every region?
Why does my chatbot still answer when Pinecone is down?
Are Inference and Assistant affected by an index outage?
How we measure this
- We request Pinecone's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage. - A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
- Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
- Where Pinecone publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
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