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.
GCP is down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44260810
They finally updated their status page confirming: https://status.firebase.google.com/
Auth is down too, but no report yet.
https://downdetector.com/ shows many major services down. This is wide spread.
Yeah - also seeing an outage on our application at the moment. 503 errors for us related to visibility checks.
Before the GCP Console stopped loading, it looks like they were pushing an update to all my nodes in kubernetes engine
Not good. production mobile app is impacted. Firestore database is down. Need to switch to AWS moving ahead.
Chrome Remote Desktop was down for me this morning but they don’t have a status page beyond GCP.
Seeing the same. Nobody can log into my app / various errors in GCP/Firebase admin.
Auth down for sure. No sign of recovery yet. Can access dashboard (apart from auth) though.
Looking forward to the post mortem
GCP and Firebase don't work
looks like auth is down for a lot of services, replit, lovable, macaly, claude, etc.
GCP back to service, auth & firestore & storage seems to be working fine.
This is the first time I heard Firebase is down. Google is usually reliable.
Same here, our freeguessr.com is impacted as well, all projects
How is HN working? Don't you guys use Firebase in prod?
(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.
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.
Yes, production is impacted. Firebase, GCP and Meet is down
Yep, it's down for our company's MIS as well.
Login to our mobile app appears to be working now.
Seems like an outage accross many Google products.
Yep, seeing SSO and auth errors from firebase.
Artifact registry still down for image push
Bigquery is down, as is my GCP status page.
Seeing various issues with GCP right now.
Some of our services started to recover
503 errors for us. Starting 10 min ago
Looks like it's coming back
Maybe a deploy from an AI...
Impacted also in production.
yes, it is clearly down. i've filed a ticket. no response so far
visibility check issue... firebase auth totally crashing in production
Everything is on fire!
same, got 503 for all projects
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