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🟡 PlanetScale decided to yeet dev branches with MySQL Vectors from 8.0 to 8.4 and, plot twist, several regions are now serving nothing but regret. Singapore, Sydney, and Oregon all got partial outages as souvenirs. They're 'investigating'—tech speak for 'our upgrade script had strong opinions about uptime.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 06, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Development branches with MySQL Vectors not serving

// Status page says

Status: Investigating PlanetScale initiated a system wide upgrade of branches with Vectors enabled and running on MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.4. A number of development branches were disrupted and have not yet recovered. We are investigating and remediating. Affected components ap-southeast-1 (Singapore) (Partial outage) ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) (Partial outage) us-west-2 (Oregon) (Partial outage) us-central1 (Io

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

https://www.planetscalestatus.com//incidents/01KWWDWD1T3YAE5J89B0V9Q3XD

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🟡 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)

🟢 PLANETSCALE Sep 05, 2026

🟡 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)

🟢 PLANETSCALE 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)

🟢 PLANETSCALE 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)