Firebase incident

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

Major

Resolved after 14 hours 25 minutes, affecting Realtime Database and Realtime Database (global), on October 21, 2026.

resolved Oct 22, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC

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

Started: Oct 21, 2026, 01:05 PM UTC
Resolved: Oct 22, 2026, 03:30 AM UTC
Duration: 14h 25m
Detected by Pingoru: Oct 21, 2026, 01:05 PM UTC

Affected components

Realtime DatabaseRealtime Database (global)

Update timeline

investigating Oct 21, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC

Users may be experiencing intermittent 500's and elevated latencies.
resolved Oct 22, 2026, 07:19 PM UTC

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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