# Cloud Metrics -High Write Latency and Errors in prod-us-central-7

- Provider: [Grafana Cloud](https://down.guide/providers/grafana-cloud)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 1h 14m
- started 2026-05-08 21:16 UTC
- Azure US Central - prod-us-central-7: Ingestion
- us, us-central-7
- Grafana Cloud states the impact was 2026-05-08 20:40 to 21:00 UTC (20m)
- id: DWN-ff508f0875
- Official page: https://stspg.io/l0tvwksgh4rk

## Updates from Grafana Cloud
### 2026-05-08 21:16 UTC: monitoring
From approximately 20:40-21:00 UTc, we experienced an issue affecting Grafana Cloud Metrics in prod-us-central-7. Affected users may have experienced high latency and/or errors during ingestion and rule evaluation.
Our team has identified the cause and mitigated. We are currently monitoring for long-term stability.

### 2026-05-08 22:30 UTC: resolved
We have continued to observe stability. 
This incident is now being considered as resolved. Thank you for your patience.

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