Google outage – resolved • Hacker News Board

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by shoshino » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

dkarp wrote: post #234

Dayshine wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Haha, the irony!

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by mrcus » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

mmillin wrote: post #121

Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.

Nope, especially considering the implications of this, with the amount of people working remotely. Google Meet, Classroom, etc. are down. This is probably literally costing billions every minute just in loss of productivity.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

eddytrex_ wrote: post #190

shawabawa3 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

youtube is working in incognito mode

Yeah for me too: youtube and gmail works in incognito mode

> gmail works in incognito mode

I mean, that must be a generous definition of "works"! :)

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by prof-dr-ir » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

tosh wrote: post #24

Just 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

Mistakes happen... that page is probably still correct 99,9999% of the time!

/s

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by dhruvarora013 » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

Amazing how many products are clearly getting affected due to this. The top 18 products on downdetector.com are all Google-owned or related

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by henearkr » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:16 PM UTC

adarshaj wrote: post #265

It's up in Japan

Down for me. Have you tried Youtube while being logged in?

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #256

But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?

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Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by speeder » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

Sebb767 wrote: post #75

210 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 came to HN to see if there was news to calm me down, we just started business day here, and as soon I tried to login some 30 minutes ago, Google claimed my paid business account didn't exist, so I came here to check if there was some mass banning or something like that.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by emirhan » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #256

But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?

I guess it's the demand of everyone checking HN to see if Google is down or not.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by sciurus » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 12:17 PM UTC

This affects GCP as well as Google's consumer services. I'm here because I was paged about low traffic for a service. Turns out to just be that I can't access any metrics at all from Google Cloud Monitoring (i.e. Stackdriver).