PlanetScale outage, 14 May 2026

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.

Started
Resolved
14 May 2026, 21:03 UTC (after 32 min)
Impact
Major

Last update from PlanetScale

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.

14 May 2026, 21:03 UTC

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Other PlanetScale incidents

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  3. Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP

  4. Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases

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  8. API and dashboard errors

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