Outage in PostHog

Feature flags API: elevated error rates

Resolved Minor

March 02, 2026 - Started about 19 hours ago - Lasted about 1 hour

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

PostHog's feature flags API experienced elevated error rates for 55 minutes, causing flag evaluations to fail or fall back to default behavior for some requests. The issue was caused by increased database load, which was resolved by provisioning a new database instance. API request responses returned to normal after the new database resources were deployed.

We’re investigating elevated error rates on the feature flags API. Flag evaluations may fail or fall back to default behavior for some requests.

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

INVESTIGATING about 18 hours ago - at 03/02/2026 05:24PM

After provisioning a new database instance API requests responses have returned to normal

INVESTIGATING about 18 hours ago - at 03/02/2026 05:16PM

We provision a new database instance are seeing errors rates decrease.

INVESTIGATING about 18 hours ago - at 03/02/2026 05:10PM

We’ve identified increased load on our database are working on provisioning more resources.

INVESTIGATING about 19 hours ago - at 03/02/2026 04:34PM

We’re investigating elevated error rates on the feature flags API. Flag evaluations may fail or fall back to default behavior for some requests.

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