PlanetScale incident

Vitess branch creation unavailable

Minor Resolved View vendor source →
Started
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Database Operations

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 24, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating New Vitess databases are being accepted by the PlanetScale API but we are unable to provision the infrastructure to serve them. We've confirmed this impact and are investigating the cause. We will provide further updates by 11:00 UTC. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

  2. investigating Feb 24, 2026, 11:00 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We're rolling out a mitigation now that will allow Vitess branch creation to succeed while we continue to investigate. No database operations or anything about Postgres database creation are impacted. Next update by 12:00 UTC. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved Vitess branch creation is available once again. Affected components Database Operations (Operational)

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