Live data from Hacker News

Google outage – resolved

news.ycombinator.com

551–560 of 870 posts

Re: Google outage – resolved

#551

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...

[deleted]

Re: Google outage – resolved

#552

And somehow Pokemon Go is down, too. They use GCP for hosting, but I'm not seeing other outages on GCP. Maybe they have deeper integration with Google's Cloud than publicly disclosed?

It works if login with facebook or Apple ID, so GCP itself is fine, but I guess admin cannot login to management

Re: Google outage – resolved

#554

4:41AM PT, Google services have been restored to my accounts (free & gsuite). And I have never seen them load so fast before - gmail progress bar barely seen for a fraction of a second whereas I am more used to seeing it for multiple seconds (2-3 sec) until it loads. I observe the same anecdotal speedup for other sites... drive, youtube, calendar. I wonder if they are throwing all the hardware they have at their serv…

Oh man, you're right. Bloated gmail loaded instantly. What's going on? It's loading almost 2x to 3x faster.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#556

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...

Looks like the outage was very close to that duration. Over what time period is that?

Re: Google outage – resolved

#558
post #532
post #519

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Total world economic output is ~$150M / minute, so billions every minute is off by few orders of magnitude.

That figure seems way too low, what are your sources on it?

World GDP is $80 trillion per year.

Re: Google outage – resolved

#559
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

I don't think it's difficult, I think they just lie.

Monitoring is very simple, I even learned this from a document released by the Google devops team many years ago.

Always alert from the end user perspective. So in other words have an external server test login to Gmail. Simple as that.

They manually update that status page to not scare away stockholders.

Post reply on HN