# Ignition sporadic Database connection FAULTED. and Connection timed out: getsockopt

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [September 4, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-sporadic-database-connection-faulted-and-connection-timed-out-getsockopt/95520 "2024-09-04T08:11:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![r.p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@r.p](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/r.p)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-sporadic-database-connection-faulted-and-connection-timed-out-getsockopt/95520/1 "2024-09-04T08:11:35Z")

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Sporadically Ignition loses the connection to our mysql server hosted on AWS showing in the logs:

Database connection FAULTED.

opening the databases section of the gateway the following is shown:

Could not connect to address=([host=our-cluster.cluster-cx2sms0000xx.eu-central-1.rds.amazonaws.com](http://host=our-cluster.cluster-cx2sms0000xx.eu-central-1.rds.amazonaws.com))(port=3306)(type=master) : Socket fail to connect to host:our-cluster.cluster-cx2sms0000xx.eu-central-1.rds.amazonaws.com port:3306. Connection timed out: getsockopt

we have a mirror Ignition with the same projects but different AWS endpoint which doesn't have any connection fault.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-sporadic-database-connection-faulted-and-connection-timed-out-getsockopt/95520/2 "2024-09-04T12:15:45Z")

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"Connection timed out" is purely a network error or an error in the target. You will have to investigate **outside Ignition**.

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**Author:** ![r.p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@r.p](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/r.p)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-sporadic-database-connection-faulted-and-connection-timed-out-getsockopt/95520/3 "2024-09-11T14:07:01Z")

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ok found out, one Ignition server was running on a Windows machine with an Openvpn client which sometimes caused quirks with the MySQL connection.