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Re: Google outage – resolved

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://downdetector.com/ is remarkably good at catching this too. But funnily enough, a lot of the votes come from traffic that searches for "is ____ down?" on Google. XD

https://downdetector.com/search/?q=google shows all the Google services and seems like everything other than search is reporting errors

Even search seems to have issues. It can't seem to find rare pages at all, and ranking seems subpar for the past 15 minutes or so.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#403
The Google outage is one of the top BBC headlines now, so it has become mainstream news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55299779

"The outage started shortly before noon UK time, with Google sites returning server errors when visited.

Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps, and more.

...

Despite the widespread outage, Google's service dashboard for its services reported no errors."

Re: Google outage – resolved

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post #74
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

Out of curiosity, what response time do you expect on a page like that? And what level of detail? I'd much rather have their team focus on fixing this as fast as possible than trying to update that dashboard in the first 5 minutes.

It should be faster than it takes TechCrunch to write an article about it

Re: Google outage – resolved

#408

Also Google Voice. I ctrl+F'd for that one, and it's one thing I haven't found a way to easily degooglefy from. Also down.

I wonder if this means Google Fi is affected too?

And I also wonder how many Google engineers might not even be getting paged right now as a result.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Unless I'm misunderstanding something, they are going to have an immense SLA claim issue. 99.9% SLA on Workspace services, so any business paying for Google for Business (now known as Workspace) is going to have a credit claim (assuming the outage is longer than 43m 49s which feels like it will be).

Edit: As I comment it looks like things are coming back! Timing or what...

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