# Control plane database degradation

- Provider: [Braintrust](https://down.guide/providers/braintrust)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 0m
- started 2026-04-13 22:21 UTC
- id: DWN-2b7bf3ecf1
- Official page: https://status.braintrust.dev/incidents/01KP4EYT4FZNED9TT52AG7ERER

## Root cause
> The issue was caused by an internal traffic spike to a specific query pattern.

Category: Capacity. [Postmortem](https://status.braintrust.dev/incidents/01KP4EYT4FZNED9TT52AG7ERER)

## Updates from Braintrust
### 2026-04-13 21:38 UTC: investigating
We experienced a brief period of degraded performance on the Braintrust hosted control plane due to elevated database load. The issue was caused by an internal traffic spike to a specific query pattern.

### 2026-04-13 21:51 UTC: resolved
Performance quickly returned to normal when the problematic query was identified and remediated, and we are implementing safeguards to prevent similar future issues.

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