Is PlanetScale Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 431ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://www.planetscalestatus.com
PlanetScale uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 10 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
10-day clean streakReachability by region
Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.
What PlanetScale does
PlanetScale is a managed database platform offering MySQL built on Vitess and, more recently, Postgres, on both AWS and Google Cloud. Applications connect to it as their primary datastore, so it sits directly in the request path. Its status page separates connectivity from database operations and dashboard access, because the data path and the control plane fail independently.
What an outage looks like
Applications report connection timeouts or refused connections, and connection pools fill with failing handles. Queries that do open run slowly or error mid-transaction. Schema changes and branch operations stall in the dashboard. Query Insights stops recording while the database itself still serves traffic, which is a control-plane fault rather than an outage of the data path.
What to do about it
Check planetscalestatus.com, which reports connectivity separately for Vitess and Postgres and separately per cloud, so confirm the engine and provider your database runs on rather than reading the overall heading. A dashboard or API failure does not imply your application is affected. Connection pooling and retry with backoff absorb short connectivity incidents without a user-visible failure.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says PlanetScale is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.
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PlanetScale outage FAQ
Is my application down if the PlanetScale dashboard is?
Will an outage lose committed data?
Do schema changes stall during an incident?
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How we measure this
- We request PlanetScale's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage. - A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
- Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
- Where PlanetScale publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
Get alerted when PlanetScale goes down
This page refreshes every 6 hours. Your own monitors run as often as every 30 seconds, from the same 18 regions, and tell you the moment something breaks.
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