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PlanetScale · Data and observabilityMay 14, 2026, 20:30 UTC

There is an incident in PlanetScale GCP us-central1 region impacting Postgres database availability. We are actively investigating and will update as soon as we have more information.

MajorNot disclosedUpdated 20h ago
May 14, 20:30 UTCMay 14, 21:03 UTC
Duration
32m
Impact
Major
Root cause
Not disclosed
PlanetScale, 90 days
8 incidents
Affected
Not listed by the vendor.
Status page

Final update

The changes we applied are effectively preventing further unexpected restarts to the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts to this component nor unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters since applying these changes.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · May 14, 21:03 UTC
    The changes we applied are effectively preventing further unexpected restarts to the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts to this component nor unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters since applying these changes.
  2. Monitoring · May 14, 20:51 UTC
    We applied changes to prevent unexpected restarts of the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts of this component nor unplanned Postgres failovers since applying these changes. We are actively monitoring the situation.
  3. Identified · May 14, 20:42 UTC
    We have identified the likely cause of unexpected restarts to the high availability component used by Postgres clusters, and are applying changes to prevent recurrences.
  4. Investigating · May 14, 20:30 UTC
    A high availability component that Postgres clusters depend on is restarting unexpectedly, triggering unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters.

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Full history
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 518:39 UTCConnectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP14m
Sep 216:34 UTCDashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases10m
Jul 2414:41 UTCInsights metrics underreporting3h
Jul 2018:29 UTCInsights metrics underreporting20h 49m
Jul 1820:32 UTCConnectivity issues in us-east-133m
Jul 1716:41 UTCAPI and dashboard errors28m

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