PlanetScale outage: Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1

1. resolvedFeb 18, 2026, 21:06 UTC

   Problem has been resolved. We saw three nodes fail across three availability zones simultaneously. Impacting databases hosted on those nodes. All databases have been moved to healthy nodes and we're investigating how we can further reduce impact from similar events in the future.

2. monitoringFeb 18, 2026, 20:43 UTC

   Impacted databases are recovering, we're continuing to monitor.

3. identifiedFeb 18, 2026, 20:34 UTC

   We're working on a fix for the impacted databases.

4. investigatingFeb 18, 2026, 20:23 UTC

   We are currently investigating impact.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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