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Is Neon Postgres Down Right Now?

Live global uptime status, multi-region edge latency, official incident reports, and automated monitoring for Neon Postgres.

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Neon Postgres

neon.tech

Serverless Postgres with autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

Operational
Edge Latency
346 ms

Primary edge roundtrip

24h Global Uptime
99.98%

Edge consensus

Vantage Points
7 Regions

NA, EU, APAC Edge DOs

Last Checked
5:25:55 AM

Edge consensus mesh

Telemetry verified by SteadyStack Autonomous Edge Network
Official Status
Automated Developer Alerting

Stop checking manually.

When Neon Postgres goes down or suffers silent latency degradation, you shouldn't be refreshing status pages, searching social feeds, or waiting for angry user reports. Get alerted the exact second Neon Postgres fails.

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Free 50 monitors • 3m standard (1m for first 10) • 2-of-3 Edge Quorum • No credit card required

10-Second Edge Intervals

Continuous HTTP, WebSocket & DNS checks from 15+ global edge nodes.

4-of-7 Quorum Verification

Multi-region consensus verification prevents 3 AM wakeups from transient routing blips.

Multi-Channel Escalation

Instant alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS, PagerDuty & Webhooks.

steadystack.config.ts
Auto-provisioned Monitor
import { defineMonitor } from "@steadystack/core";

export default defineMonitor({
  name: "Neon Postgres API & Health",
  target: "https://neon.tech",
  interval: "10s",
  consensus: { requiredRegions: 3 },
  alerts: ["slack-dev-ops", "pagerduty-p1", "discord-incidents"],
});

Global Edge Reachability & Regional Latency

Synthetic probe response times tested from SteadyStack worldwide vantage points.

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US-East (N. Virginia)
us-east
157 ms
UP
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US-West (Oregon)
us-west
172 ms
UP
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EU-Central (Frankfurt)
eu-central
224 ms
UP
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AP-Tokyo (Tokyo)
ap-northeast
277 ms
UP
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SA-East (São Paulo)
sa-east
293 ms
UP
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AF-South (Cape Town)
af-south
347 ms
UP

Downtime Impact Analysis

What happens when Neon Postgres degrades

Database cold starts hang, read replica branching operations fail, connection pools timeout.

Common HTTP Error Codes Observed

500 Internal Server ErrorConnection TimeoutToo Many Connections

Critical Monitored Subsystems

Components tracked on neon.tech

Serverless Postgres Compute
Synthetic Active
Storage Engine (Pageserver)
Synthetic Active
Neon Connection Pooler
Synthetic Active
Control Plane API
Synthetic Active

Engineering Resilience Guide: Surviving Neon Postgres Outages

Defensive software architecture patterns to prevent third-party cascade failures.

Immediate Tactical Steps

  • 1Check neonstatus.com for region health.
  • 2Use pooled connection string (with -pooler suffix) to avoid connection saturation.
  • 3Inspect query performance and slow query logs in Neon Console.

Recommended Resiliency Patterns

Circuit Breaker Pattern: Automatically trip and fallback to cache when Neon Postgres error rates exceed 15% in a 30s rolling window.

Idempotent Background Retries: Push failed API events into an asynchronous dead-letter queue with exponential backoff and jitter.

Multi-Region Edge Synthetic Consensus: Rely on SteadyStack to alert your team before end-users notice degradation.

Frequently Asked Questions: Neon Postgres Availability & Monitoring

Everything you need to know about tracking Neon Postgres outages and SLA reliability.

Our real-time global edge probes continuously test Neon Postgres (neon.tech) across multiple worldwide locations. You can check the live status badge and latency meter at the top of this page. If you are seeing errors while the global status is operational, it may be due to localized ISP routing, local DNS caching, or account-specific rate limiting.