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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-D521DC05

Elastic outage on June 16, 2026

Minor severityResolved6h 2mSearch
Started · UTC
Jun 16, 10:57 AM
14d ago
Resolved · UTC
Jun 16, 05:00 PM
14d ago
Duration
6h 2m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
56.00
0 snapshots
// User impact

Elastic users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Search service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 6h 2m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Jun 16, 10:57 UTC Investigating - We have detected an issue with the Kibana authentication flow for both Deployments and Projects. Authenticating to Kibana using the "Log in with Elastic Cloud" button results in an authentication failure.A workaround is to access Kibana using the link inside the Elastic Cloud console. We are currently working on a resolution.Our team is currently identifying the root cause to resolve the issue.We will share another update in the next hour.

Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Elastic: issue with Kibana authentication flow.

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 6h 2m of observed impact.

// Signals by source0 sources

No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.

// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

56.00

The incident reached 56.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC.