Azure - East US 2 (Virginia): INC0146178
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
- 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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| Sep 1404:48 UTC | INC20000217 | major | 1h 21m |
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Also caused by database
All| Started | Vendor | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1309:16 UTC | Incident with several GitHub Services | critical | 1h 29m | |
| Aug 2616:17 UTC | Issues performance is degraded in the US | minor | 4h 19m | |
| Aug 1216:16 UTC | Incident with Pull Requests and Issues | minor | 25m | |
| Aug 818:57 UTC | Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services | minor | 6h 3m | |
| Jul 2817:41 UTC | Event ingestion and retrieval delays for some North America customers | none | 2h | |
| Jul 2419:37 UTC | Incident with Pull Requests | critical | 46m |
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