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Snowflake · Data and observabilityNov 5, 2025, 15:58 UTC

Azure - East US 2 (Virginia): INC0146178

CriticalDatabaseUpdated 17h ago
Nov 5, 15:58 UTCNov 5, 20:10 UTC
Duration
4h 12m
Impact
Critical
Root cause
Database
Snowflake, 90 days
22 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Status page

Final update

Current status: We've monitored our service health metrics after disabling the background maintenance process, and we've confirmed that this has resolved the issue. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Incident start time: 15:27 UTC November 05, 2025 Incident end time: 18:36 UTC November 05, 2025 Preliminary root cause: A background maintenance process was contributing to periodic contention and degraded performance, which resulted in elevated load on a backend database. This caused intermittent errors and timeouts in Snowsight. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be published within five business days.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Nov 5, 20:10 UTC
    Current status: We've monitored our service health metrics after disabling the background maintenance process, and we've confirmed that this has resolved the issue. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. Incident start time: 15:27 UTC November 05, 2025 Incident end time: 18:36 UTC November 05, 2025 Preliminary root cause: A background maintenance process was contributing to periodic contention and degraded performance, which resulted in elevated load on a backend database. This caused intermittent errors and timeouts in Snowsight. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be published within five business days.

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Full history
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 1404:48 UTCINC200002171h 21m
Sep 1107:18 UTCINC200002136h 1m
Sep 921:53 UTCINC200002111h 58m
Sep 407:34 UTCINC200001992h 36m
Sep 109:58 UTCINC200001903h 52m
Aug 3117:20 UTCINC200001882h 24m

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Aug 2616:17 UTCIssues performance is degraded in the USSentry4h 19m
Aug 1216:16 UTCIncident with Pull Requests and IssuesGitHub25m
Aug 818:57 UTCAccount Registration, Droplets, and Related ServicesDigitalOcean6h 3m
Jul 2817:41 UTCEvent ingestion and retrieval delays for some North America customersHubSpot2h
Jul 2419:37 UTCIncident with Pull RequestsGitHub46m

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