PlanetScale Outage History

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There were 5 PlanetScale outages since February 18, 2026. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://www.planetscalestatus.com

Minor April 8, 2026

Errors with database webhooks

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 08, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 08, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Dashboard and API Requests
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 08, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We're investigating an issue with webhook deliveries failing. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 08, 2026, 12:42 AM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We've made a fix and are seeing webhooks trigger properly again. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Operational)

  3. resolved Apr 08, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved The errors have been resolved. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Operational)

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Minor April 2, 2026

Currently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentials

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 02, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 02, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Dashboard and API Requests
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Apr 02, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating All existing credentials still work and will continue to work. We are investigating an issue affecting only modifying or creating new ones. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

  2. monitoring Apr 02, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We have applied a fix and see recovery. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Degraded performance)

  3. resolved Apr 02, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved Some percentage of new credential creates, updates, and deletes errored or were very slow for approx 35 minutes. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Operational)

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Minor March 11, 2026

us-east-1 connection errors

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 11, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 11, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Mar 11, 2026, 01:04 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We're investigating an issue with connection errors to Vitess databases in us-east-1. Affected components us-east-2 (Ohio) (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Mar 11, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved At 12:51 PM UTC and 1:38 PM UTC some Vitess databases in us-east-1 were impacted by connection errors for approximately 5 minutes due to an issue in our edge network. We resolved the issue and are no longer seeing errors. We will be taking action to protect customers from this issue happening again in the future and apologize for the error. Affected components us-east-2 (Ohio) (Operational)

  3. monitoring Mar 11, 2026, 02:17 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring We're continuing to monitor. We've updated the status history to reflect the time periods where customers experienced connection issues. Affected components us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) (Operational) us-east-2 (Ohio) (Operational)

  4. resolved Mar 11, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. Affected components us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) (Operational) us-east-2 (Ohio) (Operational)

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Minor February 24, 2026

Vitess branch creation unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Database Operations
Timeline · 3 updates
  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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Minor February 18, 2026

Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 18, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 18, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Feb 18, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are currently investigating impact. Affected components northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (Partial outage)

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

    Status: Identified We're working on a fix for the impacted databases. Affected components northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (Partial outage)

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

    Status: Monitoring Impacted databases are recovering, we're continuing to monitor. Affected components northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (Operational)

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

    Status: Resolved 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. Affected components northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (Operational)

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