Live status & reliability report
PlanetScale status, outages & reliability
PlanetScale is a managed MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres database service based in San Francisco.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days PlanetScale had 99.92% effective uptime across 6 status page incidents (4 partial or major outages), resolving them in 54m on average.
Is PlanetScale down right now?
No, PlanetScale is up and running.
- PlanetScale's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
- All 3 PlanetScale pages we check are responding. Checked .
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90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about PlanetScale's reliability
- Since Nov 13, 2025, the earliest date its published history covers, PlanetScale published 25 incidents on its status page, 15 of them partial or major outages.
- Its longest outage on record in that time was “Insights metrics underreporting” on Jul 24, 2026, which lasted 3h.
- The part of PlanetScale most often affected was us-central1 (Iowa) (2 of 25 incidents).
- PlanetScale reported 6 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 9 in the 90 days before.
- PlanetScale's 90-day uptime of 99.92% is above the average for managed database services (99.06%).
- It resolves incidents faster than the typical managed database service: 54m on average, against a median of 4h 56m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of PlanetScale's public pages, measured by our probes.
Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.
Score trend
Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).
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PlanetScale incident history (last 90 days)
- Partial outageOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 1h 38m
Problems with Vitess connectivity and credential changes
Affected: us-central1 (Iowa), sa-east-1 (Sao Paulo), ap-southeast-1 (Singapore), eu-west-1 (Dublin), us-east-1 (Northern Virginia), us-west-2 (Oregon) +13 more
- InformationalOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 8m
- Partial outageOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 26m
AWS us-east-1 connectivity failures
Affected: us-east-1 (Northern Virginia), us-east-1 (Northern Virginia)
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 3m
Branch creation delays in GCP europe-west-1
Affected: Database Operations
- Partial outageSep 5, 2026 · resolved in 14m
Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP
Affected: us-central1 (Iowa), northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal), asia-northeast3 (Seoul), us-east4 (Northern Virginia), us-east1 (Moncks Corner), europe-west1 (St. Ghislain) +1 more
- Partial outageSep 2, 2026 · resolved in 10m
Dashboard and API 500 errors for postgres databases
Affected: Dashboard and API Requests
Source: PlanetScale status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS
Our independent monitoring
We check these public PlanetScale pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | Up | 100% | 780 ms |
| Sign in | Up | 100% | 419 ms |
| API | Up | 100% | 378 ms |
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PlanetScale status FAQ
Is PlanetScale down right now?
No, PlanetScale is up and running. PlanetScale's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the PlanetScale pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is PlanetScale?
PlanetScale has a reliability score of 89.1 out of 100, ranking #3 of 14 managed database services. Over the last 90 days it had 99.92% effective uptime.
How often does PlanetScale have outages?
PlanetScale published 6 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (4 partial or major outages) and 25 in the past 12 months.
How long do PlanetScale outages last?
PlanetScale resolves incidents in 54m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 3h, on Jul 24, 2026.
Does PlanetScale have a status page?
Yes. PlanetScale's official status page is www.planetscalestatus.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.