Critical Database Issue Impacting All VMS Apps
Incident Lifecycle
Incident Timeline
Monitoring
Validation is complete and we are returning to operational. The team will continue to monitor the database performance throughout the day.
Apr 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM UTC
Identified
The maintenance pages are being taken down so that the team can complete its smoke testing and validation. Once that's done, we'll update our status to operational. Next update as soon as possible.
Apr 21, 2026 at 4:57 PM UTC
Identified
The team continues to restore access. We are applying a fix and the team will be moving on to testing and validation. We are optimistic we will be operational within the hour.
Apr 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM UTC
Identified
We are continuing to restore access. Next update will be 30 minutes.
Apr 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM UTC
Identified
We are nearing the completion of the database backup portion of the restore process. Next update by 11:30AM US Eastern.
Apr 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC
Identified
We continue to work on the database restore. The backup process is taking longer than anticipated. With that in mind, we'll send out the next update no later than 11AM US eastern.
Apr 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM UTC
Identified
The database restore is still in progress. Next update no later than 30 minutes.
Apr 21, 2026 at 1:46 PM UTC
Identified
We are in the process of restoring the VetMedStat database. Next update no later than 30 minutes.
Apr 21, 2026 at 1:16 PM UTC
Investigating
We can expect to be down for at least the next 60 minutes. Next update will no later than 9:30AM US eastern
Apr 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Apr 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM UTC
Investigating
We are still investigating the issue within VMS.
Apr 21, 2026 at 10:11 AM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Apr 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Apr 21, 2026 at 8:04 AM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
Apr 21, 2026 at 8:03 AM UTC
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