What should I do if PlanetScale is down for me?

Check your connection limit and pool settings first, since exhausting connections looks exactly like the database being down. Retry with a longer timeout, because a serverless or scale-to-zero instance may simply be waking up. Confirm your credentials and IP allowlist have not changed, as an auth or firewall denial reads as a failed query. Query from another network or client to establish whether the cluster or your route to it is the problem.

Databases

Is PlanetScale down right now?

No, it’s up.

PlanetScale appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-19 02:39 UTC

responded in 66ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, PlanetScale has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~185 ms. According to PlanetScale's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-07-24 14:41 UTC and lasted 3h (severity: down). It was reported as "Insights metrics underreporting".

PlanetScale is a managed MySQL platform built on Vitess, with non-blocking schema changes and horizontal sharding. Its control plane and data plane are separate, so branch and deploy-request workflows can break while production queries continue to be served without interruption.

Is PlanetScale down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching PlanetScale normally right now, and it answered our last one in 66ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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PlanetScale response time (last 24h)

Last 24h

peak 1372 ms

PlanetScale incident history (last 90 days)

JulAugSep

up
slow
down
no reading

All 10 recorded outages

6 of the incidents below were reported by PlanetScale on days we were not yet monitoring, so the timeline above leaves those days hatched rather than colouring them in.

Date	What happened	Duration	Severity
2026-07-24 14:41 UTC	Insights metrics underreportingReported by PlanetScale	3h	Down
2026-07-20 18:29 UTC	Insights metrics underreportingReported by PlanetScale	20h 49m	Degraded
2026-07-18 20:32 UTC	Connectivity issues in us-east-1Reported by PlanetScale	32m	Down
2026-07-17 16:41 UTC	API and dashboard errorsReported by PlanetScale	27m	Down
2026-07-16 09:30 UTC	Single Sign On (SSO) unavailableReported by PlanetScale	1h 21m	Degraded
2026-07-06 19:18 UTC	Development branches with MySQL Vectors not servingReported by PlanetScale	2h 26m	Degraded

PlanetScale uptime

100.00%
7 days: 100.00%
30 days: 100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-12. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 39 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days PlanetScale reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if PlanetScale is down for just you

Check your connection limit and pool settings first, since exhausting connections looks exactly like the database being down.
Retry with a longer timeout, because a serverless or scale-to-zero instance may simply be waking up.
Confirm your credentials and IP allowlist have not changed, as an auth or firewall denial reads as a failed query.
Query from another network or client to establish whether the cluster or your route to it is the problem.

Frequently asked questions

PlanetScale appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-19 02:39 UTC.

PlanetScale’s official status page

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