Is Fauna Shutting Down? What Happened and What to Do

How to fix it

Try these in order — the most common fix is first.

1. 1. Confirm the service is gone

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   1. Check status.fauna.com for the shutdown notice
   2. Try a simple query with your driver; connection errors confirm the end of service
   Did this fix it? Yes No

2. 2. Pick a replacement

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   1. List which Fauna features you used (documents, indexes, ACID transactions, FQL)
   2. Choose Postgres (Supabase, Neon) for relational use or MongoDB Atlas for documents
   3. Plan to rewrite queries, since FQL has no equivalent elsewhere
   Did this fix it? Yes No

Symptoms

Dashboard and API do not load, drivers return connection errors, or you read that Fauna is closing.

Why it happens

• Fauna could not raise the capital needed to grow its hosted database
• The company decided to end the cloud service
• Accounts and data were removed after the cutoff

This guide also covers

• is fauna shutting down
• fauna shutdown
• faunadb shut down
• fauna database discontinued

Other Fauna errors

• How to Export Your Data from Fauna (Before and After Shutdown)
• How to Migrate from Fauna to Postgres
• How to Migrate from Fauna to MongoDB
• Fauna Not Working: Connection Refused or Request Failed
• Is Fauna Open Source? Can You Self-Host It?
• Fauna Billing After Shutdown: Charges, Refunds and Cancel
• Converting FQL Queries to SQL After Fauna
• Fauna GraphQL and REST API Not Responding After Shutdown