RPC error -32009: Slot skipped, or missing in long-term storage

Last updated: October 24, 2026

At a glance

Cause

The slot is absent from long-term (warehouse) storage — it was skipped, or the historical record for that slot is not present in the queried archive.

Solution

1. Enumerate available slots with getBlocks before requesting one.
2. Query an archival node for deep history.
3. Skip permanently-missing slots in your indexing logic.

Example

{
  "id": 1,
  "error": {
    "code": -32009,
    "message": "Slot 123456789 was skipped, or missing in long-term storage"
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}