# Vitess database availability issues in GCP northamerica-northeast1

- Provider: [PlanetScale](https://down.guide/planetscale)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 43m
- started 2026-02-18 20:23 UTC
- northamerica-northeast1
- id: DWN-4b5c03215b
- Official page: https://www.planetscalestatus.com/incidents/01KHS6R662APJCQY16T9W0Y70Z

## Updates from PlanetScale
### 2026-02-18 20:23 UTC: investigating
We are currently investigating impact.

### 2026-02-18 20:34 UTC: identified
We're working on a fix for the impacted databases.

### 2026-02-18 20:43 UTC: monitoring
Impacted databases are recovering, we're continuing to monitor.

### 2026-02-18 21:06 UTC: resolved
Problem has been resolved. We saw three nodes fail across three availability zones simultaneously. Impacting databases hosted on those nodes.
All databases have been moved to healthy nodes and we're investigating how we can further reduce impact from similar events in the future.

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