PlanetScale outage: 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.

1. resolvedMay 14, 2026, 21:03 UTC

   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.

2. monitoringMay 14, 2026, 20:51 UTC

   We applied changes to prevent unexpected restarts of the high availability component shared by Postgres clusters. We have not seen further restarts of this component nor unplanned Postgres failovers since applying these changes. We are actively monitoring the situation.

3. identifiedMay 14, 2026, 20:42 UTC

   We have identified the likely cause of unexpected restarts to the high availability component used by Postgres clusters, and are applying changes to prevent recurrences.

4. investigatingMay 14, 2026, 20:30 UTC

   A high availability component that Postgres clusters depend on is restarting unexpectedly, triggering unplanned failovers in Postgres clusters.

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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