Is BigQuery down?

What BigQuery does - and how it fails

BigQuery is Google Cloud’s serverless data warehouse - the analytical backbone for dashboards, scheduled pipelines, and increasingly the feature stores behind ML. BigQuery incidents rarely lose data; they surface as query failures, jobs stuck in PENDING, or streaming-insert latency in one region, which quietly breaks every dashboard and dbt run downstream.

• Queries returning internal errors or running far slower than normal in one region
• Jobs stuck in PENDING as scheduling capacity degrades
• Streaming inserts / Storage Write API latency and backlog growth
• Downstream tools (Looker, dbt, scheduled queries) failing en masse while other GCP services stay green

Recent BigQuery incidents

• Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.

  September 1, 2026 · 4h 8m

  Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.

• We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.

  August 20, 2026 · 3h 40m

  We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.

Full analyses live in the post-mortem archive.

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