Federal Reserve outage history

A degraded performance affected Federal Reserve Services' Check 21 component. The degradation began at 12:32 AM UTC after the system moved from normal to degraded, and affected users relying on Check 21 for processing workflows. The status updates indicated the issue persisted for most of the day.

A user reported connectivity issues at 3:06 AM UTC. The Check 21 component moved back to a healthy state at 3:37 PM UTC, at which point the service was restored.

Users experienced a brief disruption affecting the Federal Reserve's Services / Check 21 component. Degraded status began at 4:02 PM UTC, with a full outage for the Check 21 service starting at 11:37 PM UTC and resolved by 12:27 AM UTC. A Houston user reported the issue around 5:45 PM UTC and a follow-up comment appeared at 5:54 PM UTC, indicating disruption. The outage appears isolated to the Check 21 component and did not indicate broader problems across Federal Reserve services, as updates progressed from degraded to outage and back to normal. The incident was time-bound with limited user impact.

A temporary degradation was observed for the Federal Reserve's internal Services / Check 21 health check. The component moved from up to warn at 8:47 PM UTC, with the degraded state lasting about 1 hour and 20 minutes until it recovered to up at 10:07 PM UTC. The impact appeared limited to that specific check and did not involve broader systems or public-facing features.

No additional updates or public-facing notifications beyond that single status change were posted, indicating the incident was isolated to Services / Check 21 and resolved promptly.

Users encountered a brief degradation of the Fedwire Securities service when it moved to degraded at 6:52 PM UTC and returned to normal by 8:02 PM UTC. The Federal Reserve's status page shows the Fedwire Securities component transitioning from up to warn, then back to up, signaling a short-lived disruption. The incident affected primarily Fedwire Securities, with no broader service impact reported. The recovery occurred after about one hour and ten minutes of degraded performance.

Users relying on Federal Reserve Check 21 processing faced degraded performance beginning at 10:42 AM UTC. The incident was recorded as a degraded state for the Check 21 component and lasted for several hours before services returned to normal, with operations restored by 3:47 PM UTC. This impacted check-clearing workflows and related financial processes that depend on Check 21 during the window.

Users relying on the Federal Reserve's Check 21 service saw a brief degradation when the Services / Check 21 component entered a degraded state at 4:42 AM UTC and was subsequently restored to normal at 7:57 PM UTC. The degradation lasted for roughly a day and a half, with the official status updates indicating a temporary disturbance limited to the Check 21 component. No broader service-wide impacts were reported, and the component returned to standard operation following the incident.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component experienced a brief degraded performance. Impact began at 9:32 PM UTC when FedACH entered a degraded state and was fully restored by 9:57 PM UTC, lasting about 25 minutes. The status page documented the degradation and subsequent recovery for FedACH, with no other components affected.

An isolated brief degradation affected the Federal Reserve's Services / Check 21 component. The status page shows the component moving from up to warn at 8:12 PM UTC and returning to up at 8:42 PM UTC, a span of about thirty minutes. The issue appeared confined to this component, with the status returning to normal after the brief degraded period.

The Federal Reserve's Account Services briefly entered a degraded state, starting at 1:07 AM UTC and returning to normal by 2:02 AM UTC, lasting about 55 minutes. The issue was isolated to the Account Services component, with status updates showing the service moving from an up state to degraded and back to up during this period. Users relying on account-related features may have experienced intermittent performance during the window before the service recovered.

The Federal Reserve's Services / Account Services experienced a brief degradation starting at 1:04 AM UTC when the component moved to a degraded state and was restored at 2:32 AM UTC. The status page indicated a short window of degraded performance affecting the Account Services component, before returning to normal. The update suggests the issue was limited to this component and did not indicate broader impact across Federal Reserve services.