Stack Overflow incident

Database Connectivity Issues

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Stack Overflow experienced a minor incident on May 8, 2026, lasting 2d 10h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC
Resolved
May 11, 2026, 07:06 AM UTC
Duration
2d 10h
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring May 08, 2026, 08:17 PM UTC

    Incident: We're currently aware of intermittent database connectivity. This appears to be impacting the following database hosts: sdb-84, sdb-86 and wpdb-42. Our System Administrators are currently investigating, and updates will be provided as we have more information available.