TiDB Cloud Outage History

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TiDB Cloud had 24 outages in the last 2 years totaling 58h 9m of downtime, averaging 1 incident per month.

There were 24 TiDB Cloud outages since October 29, 2024 totaling 58h 9m of downtime. Each is summarised below. Incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: status.tidbcloud.com

Critical September 13, 2026

Issues with Cluster Changes via TiDB Cloud Console and API

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 13, 2026, 09:30 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 13, 2026, 09:59 AM UTC
Duration
29m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Backend
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 13, 2026, 09:30 AM UTC

    We are investigating an issue affecting cluster change operations through the TiDB Cloud Console and API. Existing clusters remain operational, and database workloads are not affected. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  2. monitoring Sep 13, 2026, 09:48 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 13, 2026, 09:59 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 23, 2026

TiDB Cloud Web Console and API Performance Degradation

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 23, 2026, 03:03 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 23, 2026, 03:31 AM UTC
Duration
28m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal BackendTiDB Cloud Portal Frontend
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 23, 2026, 03:03 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue causing slower response times for the TiDB Cloud Web Console and APIs. Database services are not affected and continue to operate normally. We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

  2. identified Aug 23, 2026, 03:24 AM UTC

    We have identified the root cause and are currently working on optimizations to restore normal Web Console and API performance. Database services remain unaffected. We appreciate your patience while we work on the fix.

  3. resolved Aug 23, 2026, 03:31 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved, and TiDB Cloud Web Console and API performance has returned to normal. Database services were not affected during the incident. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

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Major July 15, 2026

US-West-2 Starter and Essential Cluster Partial Outage

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 15, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 15, 2026, 04:22 AM UTC
Duration
22m
Affected: aws / us-west-2aws / us-west-2
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 15, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC

    Some Starter and Essential services in AWS us-west-2 are currently unavailable. We are investigating the root cause.

  2. resolved Jul 15, 2026, 04:22 AM UTC

    The issue has been fully resolved, and services have remained stable since recovery.

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Minor July 1, 2026

Degraded Performance on tidbcloud.com

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 01, 2026, 05:43 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 01, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC
Duration
3h 5m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal BackendTiDB Cloud Portal Frontend
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Jul 01, 2026, 05:43 AM UTC

    We are currently observing slower-than-usual response times on tidbcloud.com. Our team is actively investigating the issue and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

  2. resolved Jul 01, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC

    The slower-than-usual response times on tidbcloud.com have been resolved. Our team has confirmed that the service is operating normally.

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Notice April 3, 2026

Partial Service Degradation in AWS us-east-1

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 03, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 03, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC
Duration
–
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Apr 03, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC

    We experienced a temporary service degradation affecting Starter and Essential plan clusters in AWS us-east-1. During this period, some users may have encountered connection issues or query errors. Impact Duration: 06:09 – 06:19 (UTC) The issue has been fully resolved, and services have remained stable since recovery. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience and understanding.

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Major February 27, 2026

Service Degradation: Partial Query Failures on Starter and Essential Instances (AWS ap-southeast-1)

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 27, 2026, 11:55 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 27, 2026, 01:07 PM UTC
Duration
1h 12m
Affected: aws / ap-southeast-1aws / ap-southeast-1
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 27, 2026, 11:55 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue causing partial query failures on Starter and Essential TiDB Cloud instances in the AWS ap-southeast-1 region. Some users may experience intermittent query errors or degraded performance. Our team is actively working to identify the root cause and will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  2. resolved Feb 27, 2026, 01:07 PM UTC

    The issue affecting Starter and Essential TiDB Cloud instances in AWS ap-southeast-1 has been resolved as of 13:00 UTC Time. All services have recovered, and query performance has returned to normal. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure stability. Thank you for your patience.

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Minor February 10, 2026

US-East-1 Starter and Essential Cluster Partial Outage

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 10, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 10, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC
Duration
7m
Affected: aws / us-east-1aws / us-east-1
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Feb 10, 2026, 08:14 AM UTC

    Between 22:08 and 22:15 UTC on Feb 9, 2026, a portion of Starter and Essential clusters in the US-East-1 region were unavailable. The issue has been identified and resolved, and all services are now fully operational.

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Minor February 6, 2026

Partial Starter TiDB Cloud Instances Experiencing Import Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 06, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Feb 06, 2026, 05:41 AM UTC
Duration
31m
Affected: aws / ap-southeast-1aws / eu-central-1aws / us-east-1aws / us-west-2alicloud / ap-southeast-1
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Feb 06, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC

    We have identified an issue where some v8.5 Starter TiDB Cloud instances may experience import failures. To prevent further impact and ensure system stability, the import function has been temporarily disabled for affected region instances while maintenance is in progress. Our engineering team is actively working on the resolution, and the import functionality will be restored as soon as possible. We will provide updates once the service is fully recovered. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

  2. resolved Feb 06, 2026, 05:41 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved. All services are now operating normally. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure stability. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Minor December 10, 2025

Intermittent DNS Resolution Issues

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 10, 2025, 11:52 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 12, 2025, 06:31 AM UTC
Duration
1d 6h
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Backend
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Dec 10, 2025, 11:52 PM UTC

    We’re currently investigating an intermittent DNS resolution issue that may affect connectivity to some TiDB Cloud private endpoints. While certain retries may succeed, other attempts will fail leading to inconsistent connections. Our engineering team is working with our DNS provider to identify the root cause and ensure stability. We’ll share an update once we have more information. A temporary workaround is to switch to public endpoint to connect. Please feel free to raise a ticket or email [email protected] for further help if needed.

  2. investigating Dec 11, 2025, 12:32 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Dec 11, 2025, 01:04 AM UTC

    We have identified an intermittent DNS resolution issue caused by an unexpected outage in the DNS service used by our backend systems. As a result, you may experience occasional connection disruptions. Our engineering team is actively working with our DNS provider to determine the root cause and restore full stability as quickly as possible. In the meantime, if you encounter connection issues, you may contact our Support Center or email us at [email protected]. We can provide the direct IP address as a temporary workaround to bypass DNS resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

  4. monitoring Dec 11, 2025, 02:09 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and the DNS problem has been fixed. Name resolution is now recovering. You can use the following command to verify it locally: "nslookup -qt=NS tidb-cloud.com 8.8.8.8"

  5. resolved Dec 12, 2025, 06:31 AM UTC

    After 24 hours of observation, the issue has been completely resolved.

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Major October 20, 2025

Access Issues to Starter and Essential (Public Preview) Clusters in US-East-1

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 08:40 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 09:51 AM UTC
Duration
1h 10m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Backendaws / us-east-1
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:40 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an access issue affecting Starter and Essential (Public Preview) clusters in the US-East-1 region. Some related services, including Portal UI, OpenAPI, and Metrics, may also be impacted. Our engineering team is actively working to identify the cause and restore full functionality.

  2. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 09:48 AM UTC

    Most services have been restored, and we are still monitoring the services.

  3. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 09:51 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved.

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Notice October 14, 2025

Partial Query Failure to TiFlash (us-east-1)

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 14, 2025, 08:25 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 14, 2025, 10:52 AM UTC
Duration
2h 27m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Oct 14, 2025, 01:20 PM UTC

    Between 08:25 and 10:52 UTC, some queries to TiFlash in the us-east-1 region experienced partial failures. The issue affected a subset of requests, resulting in degraded query performance or incomplete results for certain workloads. The problem has since been resolved, and TiFlash service is operating normally.

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Major September 24, 2025

Partial Cluster Creation and Scaling Failure on GCP TiDB Cloud

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 24, 2025, 12:50 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 24, 2025, 02:56 PM UTC
Duration
2h 5m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Backend
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Sep 24, 2025, 12:50 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating a fundamental issue affecting TiDB Cloud on GCP. This issue is causing partial impact on cluster creation and scaling, and some operations may fail. Our team is actively working with GCP to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

  2. resolved Sep 24, 2025, 02:56 PM UTC

    The issue was resolved on 2025-09-24 at 13:50 UTC.

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Major September 22, 2025

US-East-1 Starter and Essential (Private Preview) Cluster Partial Outage

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 22, 2025, 02:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 22, 2025, 08:45 PM UTC
Duration
6h 14m
Affected: aws / us-east-1
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 22, 2025, 02:30 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue causing partial inaccessibility of Starter and Essential (Private Preview) clusters in the US-East-1 region. Our team is actively working on a resolution.

  2. investigating Sep 22, 2025, 05:29 PM UTC

    To address the ongoing issue, we have proactively paused all clusters in US-EAST-1. The team is working on a fix.

  3. resolved Sep 22, 2025, 08:45 PM UTC

    The issue affecting Starter and Essential (Private Preview) clusters in US-EAST-1 has been identified and resolved. Service has been fully restored. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Critical August 21, 2025

TiDB Cloud Webconsole Inaccessible

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 21, 2025, 01:05 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 21, 2025, 01:54 AM UTC
Duration
48m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Frontend
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Aug 21, 2025, 01:05 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue that is causing the TiDB Cloud webconsole to be inaccessible. Our team is working to resolve this as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

  2. resolved Aug 21, 2025, 01:54 AM UTC

    The issue causing the inaccessibility of the web console has been resolved.

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Minor June 17, 2025

TiDB Cloud Serverless Partial Downtime in us-east-1 Region

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 17, 2025, 10:01 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 17, 2025, 10:33 AM UTC
Duration
32m
Affected: aws / us-east-1
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jun 17, 2025, 04:59 PM UTC

    Some TiDB Cloud Serverless clusters located in the us-east-1 region experienced connectivity errors when establishing the first connection after being idle for 10 minutes. Root Cause: The issue was due to inappropriate error handling in the TiDB resource arbitration service, which resulted in the service panicking and being unable to allocate resources for TiDB cluster awakening from hibernation. Start Time: 10:01 UTC Recovery Time: 10:33 UTC

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Major May 13, 2025

TiDB Cloud Serverless Downtime in us-west-2 Region

Detected by Pingoru
May 13, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC
Resolved
May 13, 2025, 05:29 PM UTC
Duration
22m
Affected: aws / us-west-2
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved May 13, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

    Some TiDB Cloud Serverless clusters located in the us-west-2 region experienced errors for 22 minutes 34 seconds. Root Cause: The issue was due to forward version incompatibility, which resulted in two TiKV servers with older versions than the others panicking. Start Time: 10:58:10 UTC Recovery Time: 11:20:44 UTC

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Minor May 8, 2025

TiDB Cloud Serverless Partial Downtime in ap-southeast-1 Region

Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2025, 02:25 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2025, 02:51 PM UTC
Duration
26m
Affected: aws / ap-southeast-1
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved May 08, 2025, 04:11 PM UTC

    Some TiDB Cloud Serverless clusters located in the ap-southeast-1 region experienced intermittent errors for 26 minutes. Root Cause: The issue was due to an unexpected server outage, resulting in multiple restarts of TiKV server. Start Time: 14:25 UTC Recovery Time: 14:51 UTC (automatically recovered)

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Notice April 15, 2025

Dedicated TiDBCloud Partial Downtime in ap-northeast-1 Region

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 15, 2025, 07:41 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 15, 2025, 08:30 AM UTC
Duration
49m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal Backend
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Apr 15, 2025, 09:34 AM UTC

    Some nodes in dedicated TiDB Cloud clusters located in the ap-northeast-1 region experienced a brief period of unavailability. Root Cause: The issue was due to an AWS incident affecting EC2 instances in apne1-az4 Availability Zone, where instance health checks failed temporarily. More details can be found on the AWS Health Dashboard.(https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status) Start Time: 07:41 AM UTC Recovery Time: 08:30 AM UTC (automatically recovered)

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Notice December 17, 2024

Partial Accessibility Issue in ap-northeast-1

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 17, 2024, 02:46 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 17, 2024, 02:58 AM UTC
Duration
12m
Affected: aws / ap-northeast-1
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Dec 17, 2024, 03:08 AM UTC

    We apologize for the inconvenience. A partial accessibility issue with TiDBCloud Serverless was detected in the ap-northeast-1 region at 02:46 UTC on 2024/12/17. The issue was resolved at 02:58 UTC the same day.

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Critical December 5, 2024

TiDB Cloud Web Console and API Access Failure

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 05, 2024, 08:54 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 05, 2024, 11:47 AM UTC
Duration
2h 52m
Affected: TiDB Cloud Portal BackendTiDB Cloud Portal Frontend
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Dec 05, 2024, 08:55 AM UTC

    Our TiDB Cloud is currently experiencing unexpected failures with the Webconsole and API. We are actively investigating the issue.

  2. investigating Dec 05, 2024, 08:59 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Dec 05, 2024, 09:42 AM UTC

    We have identified the root cause and are now proceeding with the service recovery.

  4. monitoring Dec 05, 2024, 10:39 AM UTC

    We are implementing the fix, and the service has partially recovered. We are continuously monitoring the recovery progress.

  5. resolved Dec 05, 2024, 11:47 AM UTC

    We experienced a TiDBCloud Webconsole and API failure from approximately 8:50 AM and to 11:45 AM UTC, and we have confirmed that the issue has been fully resolved.

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Minor November 6, 2024

Issue with Dedicated Cluster Creation

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 06, 2024, 01:43 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 06, 2024, 02:57 AM UTC
Duration
1h 14m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 06, 2024, 03:15 AM UTC

    From 01:43 to 02:57 UTC, some customers were unable to create new TiDBCloud Dedicated clusters on our website. Currently, the service has been restored to normal, and we are continuously monitoring the situation while conducting a thorough analysis of the root cause of the issue.

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Major October 29, 2024

Accessibility Issue in us-west-2

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 29, 2024, 08:02 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 29, 2024, 09:13 PM UTC
Duration
1h 11m
Affected: aws / us-west-2
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Oct 29, 2024, 08:02 PM UTC

    We apologize for the inconvenience, but we have detected an accessibility issue in the us-west-2 region starting from 2024/10/29 at 18:08 UTC.

  2. resolved Oct 29, 2024, 09:13 PM UTC

    The accessibility issue in the us-west-2 region has been resolved at 2024/10/29 20:50 UTC.

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