Firebase Cloud Messaging outage on Mar 17, 2026

What happened

Firebase Cloud Messaging reported a partial outage starting Mar 17, 2026, 07:00 UTC, affecting Cloud Messaging. It was marked resolved at Mar 17, 2026, 14:10 UTC.

• The incident lasted 7h 10m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 3rd longest of 5 significant outages Firebase Cloud Messaging reported in the 12 months up to it.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 4 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Firebase Cloud Messaging

The rollback is complete - service is fully restored.

Read Firebase Cloud Messaging's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Firebase Cloud Messaging started after this incident, so this report is based on Firebase Cloud Messaging's status page.

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• Major outageRailwayMar 17, 2026, 10:57 UTC

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