Outage report · Partial outage

Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) outage on Oct 21, 2026

Partial performance degradation for RTDB users in us-central1 from 6 AM to 8:30 PM PT.

SeverityPartial outage
StartedOct 21, 2026, 13:05UTC
ResolvedOct 22, 2026, 03:30UTC
Duration14h 25m

What happened

Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) reported a partial outage starting Oct 21, 2026, 13:05 UTC, affecting Realtime Database. It was marked resolved at Oct 22, 2026, 03:30 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 14h 25m from first report to resolution.
  • It was the 2nd longest of 3 significant outages Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) reported in the 12 months up to it.
  • Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)

We've successfully mitigated the network overloads on RTDB's backend that were causing network delays and intermittent 500's to REST requests.

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) started after this incident, so this report is based on Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)'s status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)'s overall reliability

71.1/100

Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) has a reliability score of 71.1/100, with 99.66% effective uptime and 1 incidents over the last 90 days.

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