Federal Reserve Outage History

The Federal Reserve FedACH payments service briefly degraded for about 30 minutes. FedACH transitioned to degraded performance on Apr 25, 2025 3:27 AM UTC and returned to normal on Apr 25, 2025 3:57 AM UTC, impacting FedACH operations during that window.

During the incident, the Federal Reserve issued two status updates describing the degraded condition and restoration, with impact limited to FedACH operations.

The Federal Reserve FedACH component experienced a brief degraded performance on 2025-04-18, lasting about 20 minutes. The degradation began at 3:32 AM UTC and was resolved by 3:52 AM UTC, with FedACH moving from up to a degraded state before returning to normal. The Federal Reserve issued 2 status updates during the incident to communicate the change and its resolution. No user reports were observed during the event.

The Federal Reserve experienced degraded performance across two core services: Fedwire Securities and Account Services. The degradation began with Fedwire Securities at 11:12 PM UTC. Account Services entered degradation at 1:02 AM UTC and recovered later at 1:48 AM UTC, while Fedwire Securities remained degraded until 2:52 AM UTC.

Over the course of the incident, the Federal Reserve issued four official updates documenting the progression from degraded to normal for the two components. The event lasted approximately 3 hours 40 minutes for Fedwire Securities and about 46 minutes for Account Services, after which full functionality was restored.

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire Funds service briefly entered a degraded state, with the Fedwire Funds component listed as degraded from 10:32 PM UTC to 11:18 PM UTC before returning to normal. The incident lasted about 46 minutes and involved two official status updates on the Federal Reserve's status page. The impact was limited to the Fedwire Funds component, with no broader service disruption reported.

The Federal Reserve reported a partial outage across FedLine components, with FedLine Advantage, FedLine Command, and FedLine Web briefly unavailable. Fedwire Funds briefly degraded to a warning during the incident. The outage began at 9:42 PM UTC and was resolved by 11:32 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The Federal Reserve issued four official status updates as the situation evolved, with the affected components transitioning from down to up as services recovered.

Impact was limited to FedLine interfaces used for secure messaging and funds transfers; no broader service disruption across non-FedLine systems was reported. All FedLine services returned to normal by the end of the incident.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH component briefly degraded, transitioning from up to warn at Mar 21, 2025 3:33 AM UTC and returning to up at Mar 21, 2025 3:42 AM UTC. The FedACH service was briefly listed as degraded on the Federal Reserve status page and then returned to normal; the incident was short and no ongoing impact was reported.

The Federal Reserve's FedACH service experienced a brief degraded performance, impacting ACH processing for about 15 minutes. The outage began at 4:32 AM UTC and was resolved by 4:47 AM UTC, affecting only the FedACH component. The Federal Reserve posted two official updates during the incident, describing the transition from up to degraded and back to up.

The Federal Reserve's Fedwire Funds service experienced degraded performance starting at Mar 4, 2025 11:42 PM UTC and was restored by Mar 5, 2025 12:32 AM UTC. The incident lasted approximately 50 minutes and affected the Fedwire Funds component. During the event, the service was shown as degraded before returning to normal operation.