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🔴 PlanetScale's dashboard and API discovered that memory is finite. Turns out a specific request pattern was basically a denial-of-service attack on their own infrastructure. Engineering team now teaching their servers what 'moderation' means. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 17, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

API and dashboard errors

// Status page says

Status: Identified We have identified the cause of the errors - a pattern of requests causing the application to run out of memory and crash - and are working to better handle this traffic pattern now. Affected components Dashboard and API Requests (Partial outage)

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.planetscalestatus.com//incidents/01KXRF99MW8ZCZ29X07C73PZTJ

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