No — Pinecone is operational
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AIWatch Data: Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, Pinecone experienced 4 incidents with an average recovery time of 2h 2m. 30-day uptime: 99.96%.
Pinecone is a fully-managed vector database for production-grade similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It powers semantic search, recommendations, and AI memory in many large applications.
AIWatch Insight: Pinecone is region-specific — outages can affect specific environments (us-east-1, eu-west-1, etc.) without breaking the global platform. AIWatch tracks Pinecone's primary status; for region-specific issues check the official status page for component breakdowns.
When Pinecone is down, applications relying on vector search for RAG, semantic search, or recommendations will fail. AI agents that depend on long-term memory or knowledge retrieval will lose context.
This page provides real-time status, 30-day uptime history, and recent incident details — updated every 5 minutes by AIWatch.
Is Pinecone down right now?
Check the live status indicator at the top of this page. AIWatch monitors Pinecone every 5 minutes and shows real-time operational status.
Why is Pinecone slow today?
Pinecone latency can be affected by region-specific issues, index size, or query patterns. Check this page for active incidents.
What are alternatives to Pinecone?
For vector search, Voyage AI offers embeddings + reranking, and self-hosted options like Qdrant, Weaviate, and pgvector are mature. AIWatch shows current availability.
How do I check Pinecone status?
You can check Pinecone status on this page, on the official Pinecone status page at status.pinecone.io, or on the AIWatch dashboard at ai-watch.dev.