PlanetScale outage: Connectivity issues in us-east-1

1. resolvedJul 18, 2026, 21:05 UTC

   Connection issues have been resolved. If you experience any further issues, please contact our support team.

2. monitoringJul 18, 2026, 20:49 UTC

   We remediated the issue, and clients can now connect to their database branches in us-east-1 normally. We will continue monitoring the situation.

3. investigatingJul 18, 2026, 20:32 UTC

   We are observing connectivity issues on Postgres in the us-east-1 region. We are remediating.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in PlanetScale's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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