PlanetScale outage, 18 February 2026

Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1

Started
Resolved
18 Feb 2026, 21:06 UTC (after 43 min)
Impact
Major

Last update from PlanetScale

Problem has been resolved. We saw three nodes fail across three availability zones simultaneously. Impacting databases hosted on those nodes. All databases have been moved to healthy nodes and we're investigating how we can further reduce impact from similar events in the future.

18 Feb 2026, 21:06 UTC

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