Stack Overflow incident

Database Connectivity Issues

Minor Ongoing View vendor source →

Stack Overflow is currently experiencing a minor incident, which began 6h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 08:49 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 5h 54m
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.