Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?

44 hunkins 36 6/12/2025, 6:00:29 PM
Firebase appears to be down for production services. Firebase console shows errors for existing projects.

Comments (36)

jerrygoyal · 1d ago
blak3r · 1d ago
They finally updated their status page confirming: https://status.firebase.google.com/
neon_shadoww · 1d ago
Auth is down too, but no report yet.
koliber · 23h ago
https://downdetector.com/ shows many major services down. This is wide spread.
staletofu · 1d ago
Yeah - also seeing an outage on our application at the moment. 503 errors for us related to visibility checks.
rew0rk · 1d ago
Before the GCP Console stopped loading, it looks like they were pushing an update to all my nodes in kubernetes engine
theyknowitsxmas · 22h ago
Chrome Remote Desktop was down for me this morning but they don’t have a status page beyond GCP.
dev918 · 1d ago
Not good. production mobile app is impacted. Firestore database is down. Need to switch to AWS moving ahead.
plerpler · 1d ago
Auth down for sure. No sign of recovery yet. Can access dashboard (apart from auth) though.
glhast · 1d ago
Seeing the same. Nobody can log into my app / various errors in GCP/Firebase admin.
dmaykov · 1d ago
GCP and Firebase don't work
plerpler · 1d ago
GCP back to service, auth & firestore & storage seems to be working fine.
digest · 1d ago
looks like auth is down for a lot of services, replit, lovable, macaly, claude, etc.
jerrygoyal · 1d ago
This is the first time I heard Firebase is down. Google is usually reliable.
vednig · 23h ago
How is HN working? Don't you guys use Firebase in prod?
maxbond · 21h ago
(No affiliation, just what I've picked up.)

HN doesn't depend on Firebase, the HN API does but HN isn't built on top of it (and presumably the API is down). HN is a monolith which uses a disk as it's database, it goes down sometimes when eg the disk fails, and it can't scale so under heavy load it starts failing requests, but it's about as robust to cloud outages as it's possible to be.

muzani · 21h ago
Fun fact: HN was down once because both the disks failed at 40000 hours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026606

It's amazing that it's almost never down, unless it's especially obscure things like this.

FreeGuessr · 1d ago
Same here, our freeguessr.com is impacted as well, all projects
neon_shadoww · 1d ago
Yes, production is impacted. Firebase, GCP and Meet is down
kaidx3 · 1d ago
Yep, it's down for our company's MIS as well.
placebo_effect · 1d ago
Login to our mobile app appears to be working now.
minimaxir · 1d ago
Seems like an outage accross many Google products.
plerpler · 22h ago
Artifact registry still down for image push
iimblack · 1d ago
Yep, seeing SSO and auth errors from firebase.
data-ottawa · 1d ago
Bigquery is down, as is my GCP status page.
superphil0 · 23h ago
Some of our services started to recover
lebski88 · 1d ago
Seeing various issues with GCP right now.
herberthobregon · 1d ago
503 errors for us. Starting 10 min ago
dmaykov · 1d ago
Looks like it's coming back
morfeubr · 1d ago
Maybe a deploy from an AI...
blak3r · 1d ago
Impacted also in production.
rvz · 1d ago
Looking forward to the post mortem
rdamus · 1d ago
yes, it is clearly down. i've filed a ticket. no response so far
heavenisom · 1d ago
visibility check issue... firebase auth totally crashing in production
aeroniero · 1d ago
Everything is on fire!
minhduc2611 · 1d ago
same, got 503 for all projects