I have 5 tabs open with emails written ready to send at some point. Had issues saving drafts, too.
Gmail and Google Drive Outage
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Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#32There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997
See you in August 2021, good sir!
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#33Was greeted by this just as we started work. Observations so far: Reading and receiving emails via the Gmail web UI works, sending emails via the web UI doesn't work, sending emails via SMTP works.
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#34There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997
I work on the educational part of the product my company develops and I can attest that school start is a stressful day with login attempts, assignments lookups and other setup activities for the school period.
I wouldn't doubt that Google Classroom and other systems that use Google's SSO will be under strain from millions of students.
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#35I'm not that interested in a dashboard, but I'd bee interested in reading the post-mortem. Since they have paying customers for these products, they might release that.
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#36Was greeted by this just as we started work. Observations so far: Reading and receiving emails via the Gmail web UI works, sending emails via the web UI doesn't work, sending emails via SMTP works.
It's mostly related to attachment. Regular emails should be fine.
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
My email drafts can't even save. A popup saying "Oops, something went wrong. Recent changes may not have been saved." No images either!
Hmm odd. I had a draft from this morning (I took a photo on my phone, attached, then went to desktop later to type the rest up). It would not send and kept popping up that error you mentioned while typing. As soon as I deleted the attachment, I could send it. New emails with nothing attached work fine too in all 3 accounts.
Yes -- remove the attachment (including in-line images) and it'll work
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#38I'm not that interested in a dashboard, but I'd bee interested in reading the post-mortem. Since they have paying customers for these products, they might release that.
They usually provide it on the same page after the incident (an example: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=159398639... )
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#39Incident says it's affecting anything that uses Cloud Storage, which I'm guessing is most things. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20007 Edit: New incident number https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/zall/20008
Confirmed it's an Object Storage issue. I've personally had dramas uploading APK's to the play store. Also noticed a bunch of big websites down. Must be a decent issue.
Re: Gmail and Google Drive Outage
#40There was an outage August 19th, 2019 - almost 1 year ago to the day. As I posted at the time: "Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time." My pet theory wasn't too popular but I'm going to stick with it :) 1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740997
Millions of people are searching simultaneously at google.com or youtube.com but servers are not crashing. Issue is not traffic overload but something else.