YouTube Music failed in an interesting way. My music has been playing, but I started hearing ads (I'm on Premium), which prompted me to check what was going on.
Google outage – resolved
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Re: Google outage – resolved
#232Google Workplace (EU) is down and also Google Cloud (login at least)
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#233Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is
It is all green if you do not need to be logged in . If you are logged in, the page crashes with an error. You can still browse all services from Incognito (which for some is not an option).
Google made everyone get an account trying to force Google+ on to everyone. They don't get to pretend like that didn't happen by not factoring it into their status.
Re: Google outage – resolved
#234210 points in 5 minutes. 500 in 10. Seems everyone see's the status page and is like "hey, time to check hn" ;-) EDIT: You can permanently refresh and see the score increase by 2-3 points each second. Wow. EDIT 2: 1800 after one hour, but a few points were probably lost due to HN downtime. Being quick to post is important, guys;-)
I feel like HN's server aren't very happy with everybody doing this though. Stop bullying the servers :(
Yep, HN getting it's very own HN hug of death from google
Re: Google outage – resolved
#235Somebody threw a Spanner in the works is my guess. Global-scale database underpinning everything (or maybe the giant that is colossus is having an off-day).
Re: Google outage – resolved
#236It's super interesting that all Google services that I've tried are down _except_ for Google Search. What would isolate Search from the rest of Google's products such that it wouldn't be affected by a mass outage like this?
It looks like it is related to authentication, landing pages seem to be working, so going incognito you can still use youtube.
I would guess the search page does not actually use your credentials for anything since fingerprinting is separate from login?
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#237As a consequence, many websites depending on Google services are stuck too. Like the nytimes.com.
Ah btw HN is being crushed by the load lol.
Re: Google outage – resolved
#238Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is
HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.
For many others it seems: https://i.ibb.co/ns8DgGq/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-12-10-17.p...
Re: Google outage – resolved
#239210 points in 5 minutes. 500 in 10. Seems everyone see's the status page and is like "hey, time to check hn" ;-) EDIT: You can permanently refresh and see the score increase by 2-3 points each second. Wow. EDIT 2: 1800 after one hour, but a few points were probably lost due to HN downtime. Being quick to post is important, guys;-)
I feel like HN's server aren't very happy with everybody doing this though. Stop bullying the servers :(
This is probably like an user flood wave, crushing all platforms in its wake. Give it 10 minutes and Reddit will be down as well :)
Re: Google outage – resolved
#240Everything is affected. Its Gaia(Google Auth) outage, most probably.
Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.