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INC20000211

Major outage Lasted 1h 58m · started · Snowflake's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Components
Databases, Tables, and Views, Virtual Warehouses, Data Loading and Unloading, Applications, Snowpark Container Services, AI and ML, Organization and Account Management, Alerts and Notifications, Business Continuity
Down Index
41of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Snowflake Databases, Tables, and Views, Virtual Warehouses, Data Loading and Unloading, Applications and 5 more. 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 1h 58m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-09 21:53 UTC and 2026-09-09 23:51 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Snowflake 4

  1. investigating

    Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may be unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may be unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data. Incident start time: 21:26 UTC September 09, 2026

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  2. identified

    Current status: We've identified the source of the issue, and we're implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may be unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may be unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data. ETA: Our current estimate is that service will be restored within 15-30 minutes. Incident start time: 21:26 UTC September 09, 2026

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  3. monitoring

    Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may have been unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data. Workaround: There were no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 21:26 UTC September 09, 2026 Incident end time: 21:55 UTC September 09, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A subset of our metadata database infrastructure became unavailable, resulting in failures across multiple Snowflake services.

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  4. resolved

    Current status: We've monitored the environment and confirmed that service has been restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use multiple core Snowflake services and features. Affected users may have been unable to sign in, execute queries, or manage data. Workaround: There were no available workarounds for this issue. Incident start time: 21:26 UTC September 09, 2026 Incident end time: 21:55 UTC September 09, 2026 Preliminary root cause: A subset of our metadata database infrastructure became unavailable, resulting in failures across multiple Snowflake services. A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be made available within 5 business days.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-faa98b85a3

Is Snowflake still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-09 23:51 UTC. For Snowflake's live state, see https://down.guide/snowflake.

How long did it last?

1h 58m, from 2026-09-09 21:53 UTC to 2026-09-09 23:51 UTC, by the times Snowflake posted.

What was affected?

Snowflake named Databases, Tables, and Views, Virtual Warehouses, Data Loading and Unloading, Applications and 5 more.

What caused it?

Snowflake hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Snowflake's official status page, https://status.snowflake.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.