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Google Maps Billing API Down, Breaking Website Relying on Their API
Sigh. Looks like when Google's internal API-billing is broken, they'd rather break apps that rely on the API than allow them to continue using the API while they fix their billing problem.
Poor design choice by Google IMO.
Maps suddenly missing from one of our web apps, Chrome developer console says "You have exceeded your request quota for this API." Log into the account to make sure card on file is OK, and am greeted with the message "The server has timed out while trying to process your request" and the API console won't display billing history.
- samrohn 7y agoThere is multiple issues going on https://status.cloud.google.com/ https://status.cloud.google.com/ I am not able to access my cloud console / login to any of my machines on GCP from cloud shell
- pardner 7y agoPity the geniuses at Google couldn't/wouldn't design their heavily replied upon APIs to keep functioning if their BILLING is broken.
- ezekg 7y agoYou have no proof that the billing API is the underlying cause. It seems like the root issue is from something else which is effecting multiple systems.
- matdehaast 7y agoThat is tricky. What stops a developer creating a service worker that catches all the requests to the billing API and purposely fails them?
- bzbz 7y agoI strongly doubt this API is external.
- good_guy 7y agoOh, you are a paying customer right ? have you tried contacting their support ?