Outage in PlanetScale

Errors with branch creation for GCP databases

Resolved Minor

January 06, 2026 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 1 hour

Incident Report

We're aware of an issue impacting new branch creation, deploy requests and cluster size changes for Vitess databases deployed to GCP. We are working on a fix.

Components affected

PlanetScale Database Operations

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

IDENTIFIED about 2 months ago - at 01/06/2026 05:12PM

We're continuing to work on a fix and will share an update once it has been deployed.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 01/06/2026 04:27PM

We're aware of an issue impacting new branch creation, deploy requests and cluster size changes for Vitess databases deployed to GCP. We are working on a fix.

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