PlanetScale outage: Errors with branch creation for GCP databases

1. resolvedJan 6, 2026, 17:41 UTC

   This incident is resolved.

2. monitoringJan 6, 2026, 17:37 UTC

   We've deployed a fix and are seeing error rates resolve.

3. identifiedJan 6, 2026, 17:12 UTC

   We're continuing to work on a fix and will share an update once it has been deployed.

4. investigatingJan 6, 2026, 16:27 UTC

   We're aware of an issue impacting new branch creation, deploy requests and cluster size changes for Vitess databases deployed to GCP. We are working on a fix.

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