Databento incident
Databento portal and Historical GLBX.MDP3 outage
Databento experienced a major incident on July 16, 2026 affecting Portal and Historical, lasting 1h 13m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
PortalHistorical
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 16, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC
We are aware of an issue causing 500 errors on the portal (databento.com) and Historical API when accessing GLBX.MDP3 data.
- investigating Jul 16, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC
We've identified the cause of this issue and are working to restore service.
- identified Jul 16, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Jul 16, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- monitoring Jul 16, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC
Downgrading historical to partial outage while we confirm all API hosts are consuming the fix.
- monitoring Jul 16, 2026, 12:58 AM UTC
Monitoring for conformance now.
- resolved Jul 16, 2026, 01:17 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.