Firebase iOS crash: green dashboards, broken apps
On September 28 a malformed Firebase config rolled out to a wide set of iOS apps, crashing them on launch while status dashboards stayed green. Rollback finished in 2 hours 11 minutes, but the postmortem gives no app count.
- Outage began Sept 28 at 17:41 PDT after a stale flag cleanup
- Rollback completed at 19:52 PDT — bad config served for 2h11m
- Firebase dashboards missed client crashes; signal came via GitHub
- Postmortem omits app count and names no test suite
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