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Elastic · Data and observabilityAug 13, 2026, 08:32 UTC

Increased error rates for microsoft-multilingual-e5-large

MajorDependencyUpdated 19h ago
Aug 13, 08:32 UTCAug 17, 11:40 UTC
Duration
4d 3h
Impact
Major
Root cause
Dependency
Elastic, 90 days
27 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Status page

Final update

The microsoft-multilingual-e5-large model has been retired from the Elastic Inference Service. Requests to this model now return an error. Customers who wish to use this model with Elastic cloud must create a custom inference endpoint using their own API key. See our inference documentation for further details: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-inference

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Aug 17, 11:40 UTC
    The microsoft-multilingual-e5-large model has been retired from the Elastic Inference Service. Requests to this model now return an error. Customers who wish to use this model with Elastic cloud must create a custom inference endpoint using their own API key. See our inference documentation for further details: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/group/endpoint-inference
  2. Monitoring · Aug 13, 18:26 UTC
    Unfortunately, we can no longer support the E5 Multilingual Large model on the Elastic Inference Service due to continued upstream provider issues. Any customers requiring this model should set up custom inference endpoints using their own API keys.
  3. Investigating · Aug 13, 14:45 UTC
    We're seeing some improvement in availability but are continuing to monitor the situation. We will follow up with more information in due course.
  4. Investigating · Aug 13, 08:32 UTC
    We are seeing elevated error rates from the upstream provider for the microsoft-multilingual-e5-large embedding model. Search embedding requests to this model may fail. We are investigating

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