PlanetScale outage: some databases stuck in reparenting

1. resolvedOct 16, 2025, 01:52 UTC

   No further disruption is expected, please contact support with any further issues.

2. monitoringOct 15, 2025, 20:31 UTC

   All databases have recovered, but we are continuing to watch the situation closely.

3. monitoringOct 15, 2025, 19:44 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate

4. monitoringOct 15, 2025, 19:30 UTC

   PlanetScale experienced the failure of VMs across multiple availability zones, causing a small number of branches to need rescheduling before recovery was possible. We expect all branches in this state have recovered, and we are continuing to monitor for further failures.

5. identifiedOct 15, 2025, 18:45 UTC

   We are continuing to investigate and recover.

6. identifiedOct 15, 2025, 18:29 UTC

   A small number of databases in GCP us-central1 are stuck with "primary is not serving, there may be a reparent operation in progress".

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