Issues starting new service nodes

What to do

• Check whether your product depends on Aiven. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 4h 51m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-10-16 08:40 UTC and 2026-10-16 13:31 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to Aiven's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=aiven works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Aiven 3

1. investigatingOct 16, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

   We are currently experiencing an issue with starting new service nodes for almost all service types. The running nodes are not affected. Our engineering team is actively working on a fix and we will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

   provider

2. monitoringOct 16, 2026, 9:56 AM UTC

   A fix has been implemented and we are currently monitoring the results. New service nodes are able to start again, and running nodes were not affected at any point. We will provide further updates once we have confirmed the issue is fully resolved.

   provider

3. resolvedOct 16, 2026, 1:31 PM UTC

   This incident has been resolved. New service nodes are able to start normally again, and running nodes were not affected at any point during the incident. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

   provider

Corrections

None so far.

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