Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) outage on Jan 6, 2026

What happened

Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) reported a major outage starting Jan 6, 2026, 21:10 UTC, affecting Realtime Database. It was marked resolved at Jan 7, 2026, 03:46 UTC.

• The incident lasted 6h 36m from first report to resolution.
• It was the 3rd longest of 3 significant outages Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) reported in the 12 months up to it.
• Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database) had reported 1 other partial or major outage in the 90 days before it.
• 2 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)

The issue with Firebase Realtime Database has been resolved for all affected users as of Tuesday, 2026-01-06 19:46 PST. From preliminary analysis, we have identified that the issue was triggered by a recent change. The engineering team rolled back the change to mitigate the impact. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue.

Read Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)'s official incident report ↗

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.

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