Apollo GraphQL incident
Service Disruptions Due to Google Cloud Platform Issues
Apollo GraphQL experienced a minor incident on September 1, 2026 affecting Studio UI and Schema Checks and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 01, 2026, 03:41 PM UTC
Status: Investigating Due to an ongoing outage on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we're currently experiencing service disruptions across multiple Apollo services. We're actively investigating and will share updates as more information becomes available. Affected components Studio UI (Partial outage) GraphQL API (Partial outage) Schema Publishing (Degraded performance) Schema Proposals (Degraded performance) Uplink (Degraded performance) Schema Checks (Degraded performance)
- investigating Sep 01, 2026, 03:48 PM UTC
Status: Investigating The AWS Uplink endpoint remains available. GraphOS Routers and Gateways using the default multi-cloud configuration can continue to start up and fetch their configuration during this outage, but new schemas cannot be published. Affected components Schema Proposals (Degraded performance) Uplink (Degraded performance) Schema Checks (Degraded performance) Studio UI (Partial outage) GraphQL API (Partial outage) Schema Publishing (Degraded performance)
- identified Sep 01, 2026, 04:39 PM UTC
Status: Identified Due to an ongoing outage on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we're currently experiencing service disruptions across multiple Apollo services. We're actively investigating and will share updates as more information becomes available. Affected components Notifications (Partial outage) Uplink (Degraded performance) Schema Checks (Partial outage) Studio UI (Partial outage) Schema Publishing (Partial outage) Schema Proposals (Partial outage) Metrics Ingestion (Partial outage) GraphQL API (Partial outage) Insights Dashboard (Partial outage)
- monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring Our third party vendor has confirmed the issue was isolated to a portion of the us-central1-b zone; remaining zones in the region were unaffected. Most Apollo products have recovered, and our engineering team is validating the remaining impacted services. We'll continue monitoring closely before marking this incident resolved. Affected components Studio UI (Partial outage) GraphQL API (Partial outage) Schema Publishing (Partial outage) Notifications (Partial outage) Uplink (Degraded performance) Schema Checks (Partial outage) Metrics Ingestion (Partial outage) Insights Dashboard (Partial outage) Schema Proposals (Partial outage)
- monitoring Sep 01, 2026, 05:23 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring Our third party vendor has confirmed the issue was isolated to a portion of the us-central1-b zone; remaining zones in the region were unaffected. Most Apollo products have recovered, and our engineering team is validating the remaining impacted services. We'll continue monitoring closely before marking this incident resolved. Affected components Uplink (Operational) Schema Checks (Operational) Studio UI (Operational) Metrics Ingestion (Operational) GraphQL API (Operational) Schema Publishing (Operational) Insights Dashboard (Operational) Schema Proposals (Operational) Notifications (Operational)
- resolved Sep 01, 2026, 08:18 PM UTC
Status: Resolved Our third party vendor has confirmed the issue is now resolved, and all Apollo products have recovered. Affected components Uplink (Operational) Schema Checks (Operational) Metrics Ingestion (Operational) Schema Publishing (Operational) Notifications (Operational) Studio UI (Operational) GraphQL API (Operational) Insights Dashboard (Operational) Schema Proposals (Operational)