INC20000163
Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000163](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000163)
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State
Resolved
Started
75 d ago
2026-08-18 12:58 UTC
Lasted
1 h 54 min
until 2026-08-18 14:51 UTC
Worst impact
Partial outage
Timeline
5 updatesInvestigating
35 min 31%
Identified
22 min 19%
Monitoring
57 min 50%
Updates
Times in UTCAs posted by Snowflake
Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \(RCA\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: [https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000163](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC20000163)
Current status: We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was 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 experienced issues with AI and ML functionality. Specifically, when using Cortex Code in Snowsight, customers may have seen the following: “Internal Server error: You may need to start a new chat.” All other Snowflake features were not impacted. Incident start time: 11:20 UTC August 18, 2026 Incident end time: 13:45 UTC August 18, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Resource exhaustion in the compute infrastructure caused container scheduling failures, resulting in AI and ML functionality becoming unavailable. A root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted and a summary will be shared on the Snowflake status page within 5 business days.
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. We'll provide another update within 60 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may have been unable to use Cortex Code in Snowsight and may have seen the following error message: "Internal Server error: You may need to start a new chat." All other Snowflake features are not impacted. Incident start time: 11:20 UTC August 18, 2026 Incident end time: 13:45 UTC August 18, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Resource exhaustion in the compute infrastructure caused container scheduling failures, resulting in AI and ML functionality becoming unavailable.
Current status: We've identified an issue with container scheduling in our compute infrastructure that is affecting AI and ML functionality, and we're implementing a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 30 minutes. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified region may be unable to use Cortex Code in Snowsight and may see the following error message: "Internal Server error: You may need to start a new chat." All other Snowflake features are not impacted. ETA: Our current estimate is that service will be restored within 30 minutes. Incident start time: 11:20 UTC August 18, 2026 Preliminary root cause: Resource exhaustion in the compute infrastructure caused container scheduling failures, resulting in AI and ML functionality becoming unavailable.
Current status: We're investigating an issue with Snowflake Data Cloud. We'll provide an update within 1 hour. Customer experience: Customers hosted in the specified regions may experience issues with AI and ML functionality. Specifically, when using Cortex Code in Snowsight, customer may see the following: “Internal Server error: You may need to start a new chat.”. All other Snowflake features are not impacted. ETA: An ETA is not yet available. We'll provide one as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that affected customers using replication initiate their failover procedures. Incident start time: 11:10 UTC August 18, 2026
Affected components
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Full historyIncidents in 90 days
28
Days with an incident
73
Median duration
1 h 56 min
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