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 2026-11-05 13:38 UTC

responded in 127ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, PlanetScale has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~205 ms. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.

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 127ms. 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 2509 ms

PlanetScale incident history (last 90 days)

SepOctNov

up
slow
down
no reading

All 10 recorded outages

No incidents in the last 90 days, from our checks or PlanetScale’s own status page.

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 86 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 2026-11-05 13:38 UTC.

PlanetScale’s official status page

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