PlanetScale outage, 26 October 2026

Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes

Started
Status
Ongoing: Monitoring
Impact
Minor

Is this still happening?

Yes. PlanetScale still lists it as monitoring; last update 26 Oct 2026, 22:13 UTC.

Right now: PlanetScale reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 26 Oct, 23:09 UTC) Live PlanetScale status

Last update from PlanetScale

We've identified the resource exhaustion in credential distribution and are monitoring the restoration of service.

26 Oct 2026, 22:13 UTC

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