Stack Overflow incident

Database Connectivity Issues

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Stack Overflow experienced a minor incident on July 20, 2026, lasting 12h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 20, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 21, 2026, 08:26 AM UTC
Duration
12h
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 20, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Jul 20, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC

    Incident: We're currently aware of intermittent database connectivity. This appears to be impacting the following database hosts: sdb-59, sdb-61, wpdb-29. Our System Administrators are currently investigating, and updates will be provided as we have more information available.