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PlanetScale outage history and postmortems

Data and observability · 8 incidents in 90 days · 99.87% implied uptime · last 19d ago

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Incidents

25 on file
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
Jul 1609:30 UTCSingle Sign On (SSO) unavailable1h 21m
Jul 619:18 UTCDevelopment branches with MySQL Vectors not serving2h 27m
May 1420:30 UTCThere 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.32m
May 1317:17 UTCDatabase operations degraded in eu-west-248m
May 802:22 UTCAWS use1-az4 thermal event17h
Apr 800:34 UTCErrors with database webhooks15m
Apr 222:37 UTCCurrently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentials15m
Mar 1113:04 UTCus-east-1 connection errors15m
Feb 2410:26 UTCVitess branch creation unavailable1h 34m
Feb 1820:23 UTCVitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast143m
Jan 3109:38 UTCQuery insights outage2h 19m
Jan 901:29 UTCAPI availability issues17m
Jan 816:30 UTCInsights ingestion delayed1h 44m
Jan 616:27 UTCErrors with branch creation for GCP databases1h 14m
Nov 1718:10 UTCAPI and dashboard: 500 errors0m
Oct 2016:09 UTCDelays in Datadog metric publishing27m
Oct 2009:53 UTCElevated error rates with Dashboard and API due to AWS us-east-1 outage0m
Oct 1518:29 UTCsome databases stuck in reparenting7h 23m
Oct 722:04 UTCSSO Authentication Errors1h 8m
About PlanetScale

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Data and observability median
2h 52m

PlanetScale: 2h 52m weighted downtime in range, category median 2h 1m.

8 incidents, 5 major or critical, 29h 2m of incident time (4h 25m major or critical, 24h 37m partial), longest 20h 49m, implied uptime 99.87%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.

Stated causes

23 incidents with no cause stated.

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Questions

Is PlanetScale down right now?

Check PlanetScale's own status page at https://www.planetscalestatus.com for the live state. This page shows PlanetScale's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-05: "Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP".

How often does PlanetScale have outages?

PlanetScale posted 8 incidents in the last 90 days and 25 in the last year, 5 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 57m.

When was PlanetScale's last major outage?

2026-09-05: "Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP", lasting 14m.

What usually causes PlanetScale incidents?

Where PlanetScale explained the cause, the most common was capacity and load (1 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.

Sources: vendors' own status pages, published postmortems and SEC 8-K Item 1.05 filings, read daily. Times as reported. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

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