PlanetScale outage history and status
Is PlanetScale down right now?
No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
Open incidents
99.96%
uptime, 90 days
5
incidents, 90 days
26 min
median time to fix
Oct 20, 2026
last incident
PlanetScale components
- us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Operational
- us-east-2 (Ohio) Operational
- us-west-2 (Oregon) Operational
- ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo) Operational
- ap-south-1 (Mumbai) Operational
- ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) Operational
- ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) Operational
- ca-central-1 (Montreal) Operational
- eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) Operational
- eu-west-1 (Dublin) Operational
- eu-west-2 (London) Operational
- sa-east-1 (Sao Paulo) Operational
- us-central1 (Iowa) Operational
- us-east1 (Moncks Corner) Operational
- us-east4 (Northern Virginia) Operational
- asia-northeast3 (Seoul) Operational
- northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) Operational
- europe-west1 (St. Ghislain) Operational
- europe-west4 (Eemshaven) Operational
- centralus (Iowa) Operational
- eastus2 (Virginia) Operational
- westeurope (Netherlands) Operational
- us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Operational
- us-east-2 (Ohio) Operational
- us-west-2 (Oregon) Operational
PlanetScale outage history
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026, 19:38 UTC | Gap in dashboard metrics for AWS us-east-1 | No impact | 1 h 08 min |
| Oct 9, 2026, 22:53 UTC | AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures | Major | 26 min |
| Sep 28, 2026, 18:59 UTC | Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1 | Minor | 2 h 03 min |
| Sep 5, 2026, 18:39 UTC | Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP | Major | 14 min |
| Sep 2, 2026, 16:34 UTC | Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases | Major | 10 min |
| Jul 24, 2026, 14:41 UTC | Insights metrics underreporting | Major | 3 h |
| Jul 20, 2026, 18:29 UTC | Insights metrics underreporting | Minor | 20 h 49 min |
| Jul 18, 2026, 20:32 UTC | Connectivity issues in us-east-1 | Major | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 2026, 16:41 UTC | API and dashboard errors | Major | 28 min |
| Jul 16, 2026, 09:30 UTC | Single Sign On (SSO) unavailable | Minor | 1 h 21 min |
| Jul 6, 2026, 19:18 UTC | Development branches with MySQL Vectors not serving | Minor | 2 h 27 min |
| May 14, 2026, 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. | Major | 32 min |
| May 13, 2026, 17:17 UTC | Database operations degraded in eu-west-2 | Minor | 48 min |
| May 8, 2026, 02:22 UTC | AWS use1-az4 thermal event | No impact | 17 h |
| Apr 8, 2026, 00:34 UTC | Errors with database webhooks | Minor | 15 min |
| Apr 2, 2026, 22:37 UTC | Currently experiencing issues with creating/updating/deleting Vitess credentials | Minor | 15 min |
| Mar 11, 2026, 13:04 UTC | us-east-1 connection errors | Major | 15 min |
| Feb 24, 2026, 10:26 UTC | Vitess branch creation unavailable | Major | 1 h 34 min |
| Feb 18, 2026, 20:23 UTC | Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1 | Major | 43 min |
| Jan 31, 2026, 09:38 UTC | Query insights outage | Critical | 2 h 19 min |
| Jan 9, 2026, 01:29 UTC | API availability issues | Major | 17 min |
| Jan 8, 2026, 16:30 UTC | Insights ingestion delayed | Minor | 1 h 44 min |
| Jan 6, 2026, 16:27 UTC | Errors with branch creation for GCP databases | Major | 1 h 14 min |
| Nov 17, 2025, 18:10 UTC | API and dashboard: 500 errors | Major | — |
| Oct 20, 2025, 16:09 UTC | Delays in Datadog metric publishing | Minor | 27 min |
25 incidents in our archive since October 20, 2025.
When and where PlanetScale fails
By weekday
Most incidents start on Mon.
- Mon5
- Tue3
- Wed5
- Thu4
- Fri5
- Sat3
- Sun0
When PlanetScale went down with others
- Oct 9, 2026, 22:16 UTC 13 services reported incidents within the hour
- Sep 2, 2026, 13:44 UTC 41 services reported incidents within the hour
- Jul 16, 2026, 07:30 UTC 42 services reported incidents within the hour
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FAQ
- Is PlanetScale down right now?
- At our last check PlanetScale's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
- How often does PlanetScale go down?
- PlanetScale reported 5 incidents in the last 90 days (3 major or critical), with 50 minutes of major outage: 99.96% uptime.
- When was the last PlanetScale outage?
- The latest reported incident started on Oct 20, 2026, 19:38 UTC: "Gap in dashboard metrics for AWS us-east-1", resolved after 1 h 08 min.
- How long do PlanetScale outages last?
- Half of PlanetScale's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 26 min.
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