Is Firebase Down?

Q: Is Firebase down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time Firebase availability. If Firebase is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.firebase.google.com/ for incident updates.

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About Firebase

Firebase is Google's app-development platform covering Authentication, Firestore (NoSQL document DB), Realtime Database (older NoSQL DB), Cloud Functions for Firebase, Firebase Hosting, Storage, Remote Config, Analytics, Crashlytics, and Cloud Messaging (FCM) for push notifications. Firebase sits inside Google Cloud but has its own dedicated status page. Outages typically affect Authentication (sign-in fails, blocking every app that uses Firebase Auth), Firestore reads/writes, FCM push delivery, or Hosting. Mobile apps built on Firebase are hit hardest because almost every feature path touches Firebase in some way.

The official Firebase status page is at status.firebase.google.com. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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We check from EU and US simultaneously. A service might be down in one region but not another, we catch regional outages.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Firebase down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Firebase availability. If Firebase is down, you can also check their official status page at https://status.firebase.google.com/ for incident updates.

How do I check if Firebase is having issues?+

This page checks Firebase availability in real time. You can also monitor Firebase continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Firebase goes down.

How can I get alerted when Firebase goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for firebase.google.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Firebase status page?+

The official Firebase status page is at https://status.firebase.google.com/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Firebase issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why do my Firebase Auth sign-ins fail even though Firestore works?+

Firebase Auth and Firestore are independent services. Auth handles identity, Firestore handles document storage. An Auth-only outage blocks new sign-ins and token refreshes, but Firestore reads and writes with cached auth tokens continue until tokens expire.

Does a Firebase Cloud Messaging outage lose push notifications?+

FCM queues push messages for a short retry window if the receiving device is unreachable. During full FCM outages, queued messages may be dropped depending on their time-to-live setting. Critical notifications should set a longer TTL to survive brief outages.