GCP - US (Central 1): SI-20210520

Incident Report for Snowflake

Postmortem

Dear Customer,
Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis is made available on the Snowflake Community site.

https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/SI-20210520

We apologize for the service incident and the impact on your applications.

If you have any questions or difficulty accessing the Snowflake community site, please send feedback by submitting a support case or calling Snowflake Technical Support.

Thank you,
Snowflake Support

Posted Jun 03, 2021 - 17:31 UTC

Resolved

The Service Incident is now closed.

A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) will be posted within the next ten business days.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this incident.

If you have any questions or experience any related issues, please open a support case via the Snowflake Community Site.
Posted May 20, 2021 - 18:36 UTC

Monitoring

Our Cloud provider GCP has applied a fix to resolve the issue affecting Snowflake components.

Symptom(s): Slow query performance, query failures
Incident Start Time (Updated): 07:00 PT May 20, 2021
Incident End Time (Updated): 09:00 PT May 20, 2021

We are now monitoring the system for any further recurrence of the problem. We will remain in this state for 60 minutes.

GCP Status Page Details:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/bhMb6ab2NNyBPFCaUhgV

If you have any questions or experience any related issues, please open a support case via the Snowflake Community Site.
Posted May 20, 2021 - 17:41 UTC

Identified

We have identified the problem within GCP and our Cloud provider is working through the mitigation effort that is causing the following symptom(s):

Symptom(s): Slow query performance, query failures
Incident Start Time: 08:34 PT May 20, 2021

GCP Status Page Details:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/bhMb6ab2NNyBPFCaUhgV

We will update the status as soon as the issue is resolved or provide an update within 30 minutes.
Posted May 20, 2021 - 17:12 UTC

Investigating

We are investigating an issue with one of the Snowflake services.

Symptom(s): Slow query performance, query failures
Incident Start Time: 08:34 PT May 20, 2021

The issue is related to an ongoing incident with GCP:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/bhMb6ab2NNyBPFCaUhgV

We will provide more information on the problem investigation status as soon as we have identified the problem or provide an update within 30 minutes.
Posted May 20, 2021 - 16:43 UTC
This incident affected: GCP - US Central 1 (Iowa) (Databases, Tables, and Views, Data Loading and Unloading, Business Continuity).