Elastic experiencing issues with Serverless project creation in Azure eastus

Elastic is investigating a major issue preventing new Serverless projects from being created in Microsoft Azure's eastus region.

By The Downtime · Aug 20, 2026 · 1:00 PM ·Updated 2 days ago

Elastic has identified a major issue affecting the creation of new Serverless projects in Azure's eastus region. The company's engineering team is actively investigating to determine the root cause.

Elastic provides search, observability, and analytics capabilities used by enterprises for log and data analysis.

According to the official status page, the issue was identified and investigations began immediately. Elastic committed to providing a follow-up status update within one hour or as soon as the root cause is established, whichever comes first.

This is a developing story and we will continue to monitor updates from Elastic's status page.

🕒 Live updates (3)

resolved Aug 20, 4:22 PM

Azure's storage component issues in the eastus region have been resolved. Consequently, Serverless project creation times have returned to normal and are functioning as expected.

monitoring Aug 20, 2:05 PM

We have determined that the issue stems from an upstream problem with Azure's storage component. Upon examination, the impact is limited strictly to new project initialization times, resulting in longer creation times for Serverless projects in the Azure eastus region. We will provide a further update once the issue has been resolved.

investigating Aug 20, 12:48 PM

An issue affecting the creation of new Serverless projects in Azure's eastus region has been identified. Our team is actively investigating to determine the root cause. We will provide a follow-up status update within the next hour or as soon as the root cause is established, whichever occurs first.

📎 Sources

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