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🟡 PlanetScale's Vitess clusters in GCP decided simultaneous ghosting was on brand—Iowa, Montreal, Seoul, and Virginia all taking connectivity timeouts. Investigators report the databases are present but spiritually absent. Schrödinger's data: simultaneously connected and not connected. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
// The official story
Connectivity issues with Vitess databases in GCP
// Status page says
Status: Investigating We're currently experiencing issues with connectivity to Vitess databases in GCP. We're investigating the issue. Affected components us-central1 (Iowa) (Partial outage) northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (Partial outage) asia-northeast3 (Seoul) (Partial outage) us-east4 (Northern Virginia) (Partial outage)
🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)
https://www.planetscalestatus.com//incidents/01M1SDX367SM47F0RBA2VJYHQNPlanetscale's Greatest Hits
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3d ago
🟡 One availability zone in us-east-1 decided to go dark, turning replicas into time travelers and connections into fiction. PlanetScale's status page is doing that thing where 'investigating' means engineers are stress-eating at their desks. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Jul 24, 2026
🟠 PlanetScale's Query Insights metrics are ghosting users—reporting fewer queries than actually happened. Your databases are fine, but the telescope measuring them needs glasses. They're deploying fixes now, probably after coffee. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Jul 18, 2026
🟡 PlanetScale's Northern Virginia servers discovered they don't actually need to accept connections. Engineering team now interrogating the infrastructure about its sudden commitment issues. Remediation in progress, which is consultant-speak for 'we're Googling this.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Jul 17, 2026
🔴 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)