PlanetScale incident
Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1
Resolved after 20 minutes, on February 18, 2026.
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.
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 18, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
We are currently investigating impact.
- identified Feb 18, 2026, 08:34 PM UTC
We're working on a fix for the impacted databases.
- monitoring Feb 18, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC
Impacted databases are recovering, we're continuing to monitor.
- 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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