Pinecone status: API, auth, latency & outage reports

Operational

Last probe 16 min ago·2 surfaces

Likely your sideMEDIUM confidence

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100.0%

24h Uptime

127ms

p50 Latency

280ms

p95 Latency

Incidents (30d)

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reports in the last 24 hours

Surface Health

Pinecone APIOperational

HTTP 200p50 127ms15m ago

Pinecone ConsoleOperational

HTTP 200p50 127ms15m ago

Uptime — last 24h

100.0%

Latency — last 24h (p50 per 30 min slot)

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Is Pinecone down for everyone?

Likely local or client-side issue

Our probes see normal responses. The issue is likely on your end or in your network path.

Moderate confidence

Probe summary (2 surfaces)

All surfaces operational as of last probe.

Signals detected

All monitored surfaces operational
No recent user reports
Check your network, credentials, or rate limits

Incident history (30d)

✓No incidents recorded in the past 30 days.

Reported symptoms

No user reports for Pinecone in the last 24 hours.

Known error signatures

Common failure patterns and how to diagnose them

Provider details

Managed vector database for RAG and semantic search. Serverless and pod-based options.

What we monitor

Control Plane — Can fail while data plane works

Data Plane — Regional, per-environment

Serverless endpoints per region — Serverless inference

Status page segments

Control PlaneData Plane

Operator notes

Pinecone Control Plane and Data Plane fail independently — a management API outage doesn't necessarily break live queries. Verify which plane is affected.

Fallback alternatives

What to use if this service is down

Pinecone Data Plane is degraded

Weaviate, Qdrant, Turbopuffer can reduce downtime for vector queries

Data migration required

Moderate effort

Production resilience needed

pgvector self-hosted is a resilient fallback

Major migration

How we monitor

downforai.com probes each AI service every 2–5 minutes from multiple independent locations. We measure HTTP response codes, latency (p50 & p95), and endpoint availability across the surfaces listed above. Status is classified as Operational, Degraded, or Outage based on a weighted combination of probe results. Uptime is calculated over 30-minute buckets and the last 24 hours. User reports are factored into our diagnosis as a secondary signal. We are independent of all providers listed and receive no compensation to report any particular status.

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