Mini Incident Report
We apologize for the inconvenience this service disruption/outage may have caused. We would like to provide some information about this incident below. Please note, this information is based on our best knowledge at the time of posting and is subject to change as our investigation continues. If you have experienced impact outside of what is listed below, please reach out to Google Cloud Support using https://cloud.google.com/support
(All Times US/Pacific)
Incident Start: 8 January 2025 6:54
Incident End: 8 January 2025 8:07
Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Affected Services and Features:
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Cloud Logging
- BigQuery Data Transfer Service
Regions/Zones: europe-west10, asia-south1, europe-west1, us-central1, asia-southeast2, us-east1, us-east5, asia-south2, us-south1, me-central1
Customers publishing from other regions may have also experienced the issue if the message storage policies [1] are set to store and process the messages in the above-mentioned regions.
Description:
Google Cloud Pub/Sub experienced a service outage in multiple regions for a duration of 1 hour and 13 minutes resulting in customers unable to publish or subscribe to the messages.
From preliminary analysis, the root cause of the issue was a configuration change which was rolled back to restore the service. Google will complete a full Incident Report in the following days that will provide a full root cause.
Customer Impact:
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Google Cloud Pub/Sub : Customers were unable to publish or subscribe to the messages in the impacted regions. Publishing the messages from other regions may also have been impacted, if they have any of the impacted regions in their message storage policies. Backlog stats metric might be stale or missing.
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Google BigQuery Data Transfer Service : Customers experienced failures with data transfers runs.
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Cloud Logging : All Cloud Logs customers exporting logs to Cloud Pub/Sub experienced a delay in the log export for a duration of 26 minutes.
Reference(s):
[1] https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/resource-location-restriction#message_storage_policy_overview
Affected locations: Mumbai (asia-south1), Delhi (asia-south2), Jakarta (asia-southeast2), Belgium (europe-west1), Berlin (europe-west10), Doha (me-central1), Iowa (us-central1), South Carolina (us-east1), Columbus (us-east5), Dallas (us-south1)