Stack Overflow incident

Intermittent Database Connectivity

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Stack Overflow experienced a minor incident on August 18, 2026, lasting 1d 23h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 18, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 01:55 PM UTC
Duration
1d 23h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 18, 2026, 02:15 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Aug 18, 2026, 01:36 PM UTC

    Incident: We're currently aware of intermittent database connectivity. This appears to be impacting the following database host: wordpressdb-a. Our System Administrators are currently investigating, and updates will be provided as we have more information available.