Federal Reserve Outage History

The Federal Reserve's FedACH service briefly degraded on 4:32 AM UTC to 4:52 AM UTC, lasting about 20 minutes. The FedACH component moved from up to degraded and back to up, with two official status transitions recorded on the Federal Reserve status page. There were no user reports captured during the incident, suggesting the impact was limited to participants monitoring FedACH and the issue was resolved quickly.

From Feb 10, 2026 2:07 AM UTC to Feb 10, 2026 2:42 AM UTC, the Federal Reserve's Account Services experienced a brief degradation, with the Services / Account Services component moving from normal to degraded and back to normal. The incident lasted 35 minutes and the status page published 2 updates during the incident, noting issues with the Account Services component. The impact was limited to account-related functionality and did not appear to affect other Federal Reserve services.

The Federal Reserve's FedCash component experienced a brief degraded period beginning at 12:17 AM UTC and ending at 3:17 AM UTC. The FedCash service returned to normal after the incident, with the status page index showing an up → warn transition and then a warn → up transition. The Federal Reserve issued two official status updates during the event. For users, FedCash-related operations may have faced brief delays or limited functionality during the window; the outage lasted about 3 hours before full restoration.

The Federal Reserve’s FedACH service briefly degraded, with the FedACH component transitioning from up to warn. The degradation began at 2:57 PM UTC and was resolved by 4:22 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 25 minutes. The Federal Reserve posted two official status updates during the incident, describing the degraded performance and subsequent recovery. Normal FedACH operations resumed after the incident.

The Federal Reserve status page reported a brief degradation affecting the Services / Check 21 component. The issue began at 2:42 PM UTC and was resolved by 3:12 PM UTC, lasting about 30 minutes. The provider posted two status updates during the incident, documenting the temporary degraded state before service was restored. Impact was limited to the Services / Check 21 component; no other parts of the Federal Reserve platform were listed as affected.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component briefly experienced degraded performance, affecting the FedACH service. The incident began on Jan 3, 2026 4:27 AM UTC and was resolved by Jan 3, 2026 5:12 AM UTC, lasting about 45 minutes. During the event, the FedACH component moved from up to warn on the status page, and the provider issued two status updates before restoration.

The Federal Reserve experienced a brief degraded performance affecting the Services / Check 21 component. The issue began at 8:07 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:32 PM UTC, for a total duration of 25 minutes. The Federal Reserve's status page cited a degradation of Check 21 with a quick recovery, and it issued two status updates during the incident, after which the component returned to normal.

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire Securities component experienced a brief degraded state that lasted about 1 hour and 25 minutes. The incident began at Dec 8, 2025 7:52 PM UTC, with the Fedwire Securities component moving from up to a degraded state (warn), and the service returned to normal at Dec 8, 2025 9:17 PM UTC after two official status updates were posted.

The Federal Reserve status page showed a brief degradation in the Services / Account Services component starting at Dec 2, 2025 2:12 AM UTC and lasting about 50 minutes, with recovery by Dec 2, 2025 3:02 AM UTC.

The status history indicates the component moved from up to warn during the window and then returned to up, signaling a short-lived interruption before full restoration. The incident was contained to this component and resolved as services returned to normal.

From Nov 16, 2025 7:37 PM UTC, the Federal Reserve's Central Bank component entered a degraded state. On Nov 17, 2025 10:07 AM UTC and Nov 17, 2025 10:12 AM UTC, FedLine Command and FedLine Advantage also showed degraded performance. Both FedLine Command and FedLine Advantage were restored by Nov 17, 2025 12:17 PM UTC, with the Central Bank component returning to normal by Nov 17, 2025 2:37 PM UTC.

Over the course of the incident, five official status updates were issued. The degraded period lasted roughly 19 hours, and the issues affected three components: Central Bank, FedLine Command, and FedLine Advantage.