Who is down right now

20 down now · 248 this week

PlanetScale outage history and postmortems

Data and observability · 6 incidents in 90 days · 99.97% implied uptime · last 13d ago

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History

MajorOct 26, 21:53 UTC
Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changeslasted 1h 38m
NoticeOct 20, 19:38 UTC
Gap in dashboard metrics for AWS us-east-1lasted 1h 8m
MajorOct 9, 22:53 UTC
AWS us-east-1 connectivity failureslasted 26m
MinorSep 28, 18:59 UTC
Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1lasted 2h 3m
MajorSep 5, 18:39 UTC
Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCPlasted 14m
MajorSep 2, 16:34 UTC
Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databaseslasted 10m
MajorJul 24, 14:41 UTC
Insights metrics underreportinglasted 3h
MinorJul 20, 18:29 UTC
Insights metrics underreportinglasted 20h 49m
MajorJul 18, 20:32 UTC
Connectivity issues in us-east-1lasted 33m
MajorJul 17, 16:41 UTC
API and dashboard errorslasted 28mCapacity
MinorJul 16, 09:30 UTC
Single Sign On (SSO) unavailablelasted 1h 21m
MinorJul 6, 19:18 UTC
Development branches with MySQL Vectors not servinglasted 2h 27m
MajorMay 14, 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.lasted 32m
MinorMay 13, 17:17 UTC
Database operations degraded in eu-west-2lasted 48m
NoticeMay 8, 02:22 UTC
AWS use1-az4 thermal eventlasted 17h
MinorApr 8, 00:34 UTC
Errors with database webhookslasted 15m
MinorApr 2, 22:37 UTC
Currently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentialslasted 15m
MajorMar 11, 13:04 UTC
us-east-1 connection errorslasted 15mNetwork
MajorFeb 24, 10:26 UTC
Vitess branch creation unavailablelasted 1h 34m
MajorFeb 18, 20:23 UTC
Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1lasted 43m
CriticalJan 31, 09:38 UTC
Query insights outagelasted 2h 19m
MajorJan 9, 01:29 UTC
API availability issueslasted 17m
MinorJan 8, 16:30 UTC
Insights ingestion delayedlasted 1h 44m
MajorJan 6, 16:27 UTC
Errors with branch creation for GCP databaseslasted 1h 14m
MajorNov 13, 2025, 18:25 UTC
API and dashboard: 500 errorslasted 20m
MinorOct 20, 2025, 16:09 UTC
Delays in Datadog metric publishinglasted 27m
MinorOct 20, 2025, 07:25 UTC
Elevated error rates with Dashboard and API due to AWS us-east-1 outagelasted 2h 11m
MajorOct 15, 2025, 18:29 UTC
some databases stuck in reparentinglasted 7h 23m
MajorOct 7, 2025, 22:04 UTC
SSO Authentication Errorslasted 1h 8m
About PlanetScale

The last year, day by day

No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage

Downtime, added up

Data and observability median
1h 44m

PlanetScale: 39m weighted downtime in range, category median 1h 44m.

6 incidents, 4 major or critical, 4h 31m of incident time (2h 28m major or critical, 2h 3m partial), longest 2h 3m, implied uptime 99.97%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

Stated causes

27 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 2026-10-26: "Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes".

How often does PlanetScale have outages?

PlanetScale posted 6 incidents in the last 90 days and 25 in the last year, 4 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 47m.

When was PlanetScale's last major outage?

2026-10-26: "Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes", lasting 1h 38m.

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.