Databento experienced a major incident on February 28, 2026 affecting Portal and Historical and 1 more component, lasting 12h 7m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Feb 28, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC
Our historical API and portal are down due to a power issue impacting our storage cluster. Although markets are not open, the Live APIs should not be impacted.
- identified Feb 28, 2026, 01:02 PM UTC
We are working to fully restore power, and until then batch download processing is paused.
- identified Feb 28, 2026, 01:23 PM UTC
The API and Portal have been restored, with the exception of batch job processing which is still paused. (Existing completed batch jobs can still be accessed.)
- monitoring Feb 28, 2026, 01:54 PM UTC
Batch job processing has been resumed. Our APIs have all been restored. We're continuing to monitor for power issues over the next few hours.
- resolved Feb 28, 2026, 11:58 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.