Control plane database CPU exhaustion from billing and consumption calculations

7/10 High

The 50x increase in branch creation caused the control plane database's CPU to become exhausted due to expensive billing and consumption calculations. These operations contributed significantly to the overall control plane degradation and cascading query performance issues.

PostgreSQL
Category
performance
Workaround
none
Stage
deploy
Freshness
persistent
Scope
single_lib
Upstream
open
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
enterprise
Maintainer
active

Sources

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Neon for developers in 2025?”4/6/2026

Billing and consumption calculations became more expensive, consuming more CPU

Created: 4/6/2026Updated: 4/6/2026