PlanetScale incident

Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1

Resolved after 20 minutes, on February 18, 2026.

resolved Feb 18, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC

Problem has been resolved. We saw three nodes fail across three availability zones simultaneously. Impacting databases hosted on those nodes. All databases have been moved to healthy nodes and we're investigating how we can further reduce impact from similar events in the future.

Started
Feb 18, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 18, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC
Duration
20m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 18, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 18, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating impact.

  2. identified Feb 18, 2026, 08:34 PM UTC

    We're working on a fix for the impacted databases.

  3. monitoring Feb 18, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC

    Impacted databases are recovering, we're continuing to monitor.

  4. resolved Feb 18, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC

    Problem has been resolved. We saw three nodes fail across three availability zones simultaneously. Impacting databases hosted on those nodes. All databases have been moved to healthy nodes and we're investigating how we can further reduce impact from similar events in the future.

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