Google services resume after outage; Gmail, YouTube back online
Synopsis
Services like Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs experienced massive outages around 5pm IST. The services were gradually restored in an hour
Google services went down across multiple countries momentarily on Monday.
Services like Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs experienced massive outages around 5pm IST. The services were gradually restored in an hour
According to reports, big spikes for Google services started around 5pm IST.
YouTube service was restored shortly after this Twitter post.
The error messsage on Gmail read: "We are sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the G Suite Status Dashboard for the current status of the service."
Google Docs users were served up this message: "Google Docs encountered and error. Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes,” YouTube just shows its error page with a monkey and states ‘Something went wrong’ along with a search bar."
Clarification from Google on the outage is expected.