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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...
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?
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…
Google Reader and Google Wave also seem to be affected.
Google Buzz as well
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...
edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details
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
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.