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Re: Google's Down

#31
Spain went down for 5 min while i was in a google doc + analytics.

I run downforeveryoneorjustme.com and we went up to 1000 people a minute checking too. It only lasted a few min though.

Re: Google's Down

#32

Meanwhile their status page[0] is all green. The less they publish on their status page the more nines they preserve. [0] https://status.cloud.google.com/ Edit: status page not entirely green now, took them 25 minutes to acknowledge.

They added "We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud infrastructure components" at the top, but everything is still green. Are they unaware of which components have issues?

They know internally from the real status dashboards & real monitoring.

I think the issue is that this status page is maintained by hand, by humans, and updating it likely requires lots of communication and sign-off approvals, and trying to get numbers to decide whether an outage is big or only impacting a tiny fraction of users. Otherwise it'd probably always be red.

Re: Google's Down

#35

Meanwhile their status page[0] is all green. The less they publish on their status page the more nines they preserve. [0] https://status.cloud.google.com/ Edit: status page not entirely green now, took them 25 minutes to acknowledge.

G Suite Status is all green with no warnings. https://www.google.com/appsstatus

There are many warnings now.

Re: Google's Down

#37

Who searched "google" on google.com ??

raises hand

Terri Gross: Now I'll tell you, in preparing for this, I decided, let me Google Google, so I typed in "Google" into the Google search, and I came up with a lot of Google things in the regular search, but in the "Are you feeling lucky?" search, I got nothing.

Larry Page: Well you just got Google itself.

TG: Yeah, I just got Google itself. Oh, I see, Google was giving me itself.

LP: Yeah.

TG: Oh.

LP: In computer science, we call that recursion. [laugh].

TG: Oh, you even have a name for it. [laugh]. I didn't quite get that. I kept thinking it was just repeating itself. I didn't realize it was giving me itself. [laugh].

LP: [laugh]

TG: And what's the name for it?

LP: Uh, recursion. It's... kind of... Sergey is giving me a dirty look.

TG: Why?

LP: It's a loose definition. [laugh]

TG: Lighten up Sergey. [laugh]

LP: It's a loose interpretation of... [laugh]... recursion.

TG: Sergey, what's the more literal interpretation?

...

Starts at 13:45:

https://www.npr.org/2003/10/14/167643282/google-founders-lar...

Re: Google's Down

#39
post #31

Spain went down for 5 min while i was in a google doc + analytics. I run downforeveryoneorjustme.com and we went up to 1000 people a minute checking too. It only lasted a few min though.

I just want to say thank you for your website. It’s saved my sanity many times.

I’m curious, what’s your tech stack? Your site always seems to be up when everyone else is down. :)

Re: Google's Down

#40

Meanwhile their status page[0] is all green. The less they publish on their status page the more nines they preserve. [0] https://status.cloud.google.com/ Edit: status page not entirely green now, took them 25 minutes to acknowledge.

G Suite Status is all green with no warnings. https://www.google.com/appsstatus

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