# Errors with branch creation for GCP databases

- Provider: [PlanetScale](https://down.guide/planetscale)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 1h 14m
- started 2026-01-06 16:27 UTC
- id: DWN-36f5a4c89a
- Official page: https://www.planetscalestatus.com/incidents/01KEA25J8WXA7TDEK58B47BRH7

## Updates from PlanetScale
### 2026-01-06 16:27 UTC: investigating
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.

### 2026-01-06 17:12 UTC: identified
We're continuing to work on a fix and will share an update once it has been deployed.

### 2026-01-06 17:37 UTC: monitoring
We've deployed a fix and are seeing error rates resolve.

### 2026-01-06 17:41 UTC: resolved
This incident is resolved.

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