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Database failover in US East

Impact
Major outage
Started
Aug 30, 2026, 03:51 UTC
Resolved
Aug 30, 2026, 04:13 UTC
Duration
22 min
Regions
US East

Updates

  1. Resolved

    Aug 30, 04:13 UTC

    Everything is back to normal. Customers in US East saw errors for 22 minutes. Other regions weren't affected.

  2. Monitoring

    Aug 30, 04:04 UTC

    Failover is complete and traffic is served by the new primary. Some requests may still be slow while caches warm up.

  3. Identified

    Aug 30, 03:55 UTC

    The primary database in US East stopped responding. Automatic failover to the replica has started.

  4. Investigating

    Aug 30, 03:51 UTC

    API requests and the dashboard are returning errors for customers in US East. We're investigating a database issue.