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📣 QueensGambit

Is Firebase Down?


I am not able to connect to firebase services. All my applications running on firebase seem to be down. Anyone else facing this problem?


  👤 djsweet Accepted Answer ✓
As of 8:06:07 AM PDT, all of my Firebase projects in us-central1 are back up.

We saw a complete silencing of our highly used Cloud Functions between 7:15 AM PDT and 7:38 AM PDT, but had reports from our users as early as 7:10 AM PDT.

My favorite part about https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20005 is that 7:49 AM PDT's update acknowledges that customers can't create support requests. Not like they'd do anything. Every time we've gone to GCP support, we've been unhappy with excessive back-and-forth, non-responsiveness on the part of the responsible parties, and generally extremely long durations between "we are completely down" and "everything would be fine had you not hacked around our incompetence three days ago".

Maybe this is a "grass is greener" sort of thing but I can't imagine AWS is this unreliable. This is the third major GCP outage we've had this year, and last time (not even three weeks ago!) it was three hours long.


👤 yeldarb
Yes, twitter is flooded with reports of it at the moment. Google Cloud has confirmed they are having a "service disruption" but have not updated their status page yet: https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/1247894272629551104

All of our Firebase projects are missing from their console, deploys fail, auth fails, getting 404s for their libraries.

Seems intermittent at the moment. But spreading.


👤 ehacke
Yeah all my projects are down.

Really irritating that they never update the status pages automatically, or even in a timely manor. As if customers won't notice.


👤 sdedovic
There is a broad Google Cloud outage since appx. 9am CST. Their status page is green but someone from Google acknowledged the issue on Twitter. The GCP slack is also abuzz with users reporting issues across many many services.

👤 bithavoc
What is “Google Cloud Components”, sounds like something all the other products depend on. If that’s the case, a lot of other products should be marked as down in their status page, other users have confirmed a lot of products are down. This is really irritating.

👤 kgraves
Days ago I was concerned about the recent outages of GCP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707876

This confirms my suspicions and my concerns still persist when choosing GCP


👤 jtylr
They've updated their status page now: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20005

👤 moon2
I still can log into Kubernetes clusters and SSH into Compute Engine, but can't create instances.

The status page has been updated: https://status.cloud.google.com/


👤 tomwas54
For ~40 minutes, it was also impossible to SSH into any Compute Engine instance that uses OS Login for authentication, but it seems to have been resolved in the last few minutes.

👤 _-___________-_
My Cloud SQL instances in London are still refusing connections, and my servers can't get OAuth tokens to use other Google services.

👤 r1ch
Looks like this is having some knock-on effects, G Suite email deliverability is having issues now.

👤 bauerd
Our Cloud SQL primary failed over too

GKE is working as normal in west-3c


👤 aaronlifshin
Firebase seems back up for us now.

👤 sandGorgon
yes. and they are not reflecting this on their status page.

👤 ohtangza
My product makes lots of revenue at this time around in Asian countries, but the Firebase is down. Hope there be proper compensation for this!!!