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Databento · Data and observabilityAug 6, 2026, 15:05 UTC 8 weeks ago

Databento portal and historical API down

CriticalStorageUpdated 17h ago
Aug 6, 15:05 UTCAug 6, 19:32 UTC
Duration
4h 26m
Impact
Critical
Root cause
Storage
Databento, 90 days
13 incidents
Affected
PortalHistorical
Status page

Final update

This incident has been resolved.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Aug 6, 19:32 UTC
    This incident has been resolved.
  2. Monitoring · Aug 6, 15:05 UTC
    We identified an issue with one of the storage metadata servers affecting IO operations on our storage cluster. This resulted in a cascade of effects causing our web services to hang. We have failed over the problem server and all historical API and web services are back operational. Batch job processing was delayed during the incident, but jobs are now progressing. We are continuing to monitor for any issues.
  3. Identified · Aug 6, 12:53 UTC
    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
  4. Identified · Aug 6, 11:33 UTC
    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
  5. Investigating · Aug 6, 11:13 UTC
    We are investigating an issue with the historical API and Databento web portal

More from Databento

Full history
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 415:12 UTC4 weeks agoOPRA historical data for 2026-09-04 delayed2d 23h
Aug 2807:59 UTC5 weeks agoLive authentication timeouts in NY46h 50m
Aug 2109:56 UTC6 weeks agoBatch jobs being queued indefinitely3h 34m
Aug 1319:04 UTC7 weeks agoGLBX.MDP3 intraday data is delayed5h 5m
Aug 1022:55 UTC7 weeks agoGLBX.MDP3 delays in the Historical API4h 3m
Aug 407:47 UTC2 months agoConsistent 504 timeout on the Historical API16h 13m

Also caused by storage

All
StartedIncidentDuration
Sep 2022:13 UTC2 weeks agoIncident with Pull RequestsGitHub1h 9m
Sep 1715:50 UTC2 weeks agoAutoOps node metrics temporarily unavailable in some regionsElastic41m
Sep 1015:26 UTC3 weeks agoUnresponsive ProjectsSupabase27h 40m
Aug 2623:37 UTC5 weeks agoDisruption with GitHub BillingGitHub20h 7m
Aug 2413:56 UTC5 weeks agoActions delays in starting runsGitHub38m
Aug 1316:21 UTC7 weeks agoDisruption with GHEC Team SyncGitHub2h 6m

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