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MotherDuck is operational right now. Last checked 1m ago; the most recent incident resolved 19d ago.
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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- MotherDuck App
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified · Aug 27, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC
We are investigating reports that the MotherDuck UI is failing to authorize some customers. Other clients, like the DuckDB CLI or SDKs are not affected.
- investigating · Aug 27, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC
The issue has been mitigated and the UI seems to be authenticating users correctly now. We are actively monitoring the situation.
- resolved · Aug 27, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC
We addressed the issue and the UI is back to authenticating users correctly.
Latest: We addressed the issue and the UI is back to authenticating users correctly.
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- MotherDuck App
Timeline · 7 updates
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC
We are investigating degraded database and share attach times in eu-central-1 region. Our team is investigating the issue with high priority!
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 08:37 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate the degraded attach times in the eu-central-1 region. Our team has identified that some background jobs are putting unreasonable load on the system. These jobs have been paused and we are exploring potential fixes. Apologies for the impact!
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 09:13 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate the degraded attach times in the eu-central-1 region. Our team has identified that some background jobs are putting unreasonable load on the system and these jobs have been paused. We are continuing to investigate the full impact of the issue and explore fixes....
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC
Our team has identified the issue and are attempting potential fixes. Thank you for your patience as we continue to investigate and work towards a resolution!
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 11:33 AM UTC
Our team are continuing to work on implementing a work around and to reduce the load on our internal database, which causes the performance issues with attaches (both for MD databases and shares). We will post update here once the issue is resolved!
- investigating · Aug 26, 2026, 12:14 PM UTC
We have applied a fix and database and share attach times in eu-central-1 have returned to normal levels as of approximately 11:50 UTC. New connections should now establish normally, and any request that failed during the incident can be retried. We are monitoring closely before...
- resolved · Aug 26, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC
This incident is resolved. The fix was applied at approximately 11:50 UTC and database and share attach times in eu-central-1 have returned to normal levels. The degradation came from excessive load on an internal metadata service in the region, which slowed the step that opens a...
Latest: This incident is resolved. The fix was applied at approximately 11:50 UTC and database and share attach times in eu-central-1 have returned to normal levels. The degradation came f…
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- MotherDuck App
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved · Jul 06, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC
An AWS EC2 issue in us-east-1 during early morning of July 6 (PDT) impacted our ability to provision new compute. Some MotherDuck customers may have seen errors obtaining a duckling. More information about the AWS EC2 issue is available at: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/...
Latest: An AWS EC2 issue in us-east-1 during early morning of July 6 (PDT) impacted our ability to provision new compute. Some MotherDuck customers may have seen errors obtaining a ducklin…
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- MotherDuck App
Timeline · 5 updates
- identified · Jun 24, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
At ~10:30 UTC, MotherDuck observed partial platform disruption via elevated error rates across all regions for Ducklings. We are actively investigating and will provide an update shortly.
- identified · Jun 25, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC
At ~10:30 UTC, MotherDuck observed partial platform disruption via elevated error rates across all regions for Ducklings. We are actively investigating and will provide an update shortly.
- investigating · Jun 25, 2026, 11:51 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate the issue with the highest priority!
- investigating · Jun 25, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC
Our team has identified the root cause and are working on an implementation of the solution. More updates will follow shortly, we apologize for the disruption this is causing.
- resolved · Jun 25, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC
Our team has identified the root cause of the elevated error rates and has released a fix. We are currently in the process of rolling out this update. We are observing reduced error rates, and our systems are steadily returning to normal operation. We are monitoring the situation closely and will...
Latest: Our team has identified the root cause of the elevated error rates and has released a fix. We are currently in the process of rolling out this update. We are observing reduced erro…
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- MotherDuck App
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating · Jun 24, 2026, 07:25 PM UTC
Flights in us-east-1 are not currently running due to a DNS issue. We're investigating a fix now.
- resolved · Jun 24, 2026, 08:15 PM UTC
The issue is resolved and all Flights in us-east-1 should be operational again.
Latest: The issue is resolved and all Flights in us-east-1 should be operational again.
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- Partial outage of MotherDuck's UI ResolvedStarted Aug 27, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 27, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC · 58m
- Started Aug 26, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 26, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC · 4h 51m
- Started Jul 06, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 06, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC · —
- Elevated rate of query errors ResolvedStarted Jun 25, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC · Resolved Jun 25, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC · 1h 25m
- Flights DNS issues on us-east-1 ResolvedStarted Jun 24, 2026, 08:15 PM UTC · Resolved Jun 24, 2026, 08:15 PM UTC · —