Stack Overflow incident

Intermittent Database Connectivity

Minor Ongoing View vendor source →

Stack Overflow is currently experiencing a minor incident, which began 2d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 1d 19h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC

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