There is an incident in PlanetScale GCP us-central1 region impacting Postgres database availability. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information.

Update timeline

1. investigating May 14, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC

   Status: Investigating A high availability component that Postgres clusters depend on is restarting unexpectedly, triggering unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters. Affected components us-central1 (Iowa) (Partial outage)

2. identified May 14, 2026, 08:42 PM UTC

   Status: Identified We have identified the likely cause of unexpected restarts to the high availability component used by Postgres clusters, and are applying changes to prevent recurrences. Affected components us-central1 (Iowa) (Partial outage)

3. monitoring May 14, 2026, 08:51 PM UTC

   Status: Monitoring We applied changes to prevent unexpected restarts of the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts of this component nor unplanned Postgres failovers since applying these changes. We are actively monitoring the situation. Affected components us-central1 (Iowa) (Partial outage)

4. resolved May 14, 2026, 09:03 PM UTC

   Status: Resolved The changes we applied are effectively preventing further unexpected restarts to the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts to this component nor unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters since applying these changes. Affected components us-central1 (Iowa) (Operational)