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Google Calendar Is Down
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- FrankSansC 7y agoNot Found Error 404 Yep, same issue here (France).
- hackerbrother 7y agoSame in Wisconsin
- Vancano 7y ago404 in the UK.
- sidcool 7y agoSame from India.
- eatonphil 7y agoIntermittent 404s and 500s in NYC.
- Unknoob 7y ago404 in Brazil too
- TeMPOraL 7y ago404 in Poland too.
- daw___ 7y agoIntermittent 404/200 in Italy.
- donum 7y ago404 in Germany
- jlis 7y agoAlso not available in Germany.
- simonhamp 7y agoOP: Might be worth removing the link URL from this post so that we don't hammer their servers while they're trying to fix it for us.
- joshstrange 7y agoIs this a joke? I seriously doubt the HN traffic is even 0.1% of people banging refresh right now.
- floatingatoll 7y agoYou’re probably right about the traffic, but there’s no need to be unkind/sarcastic about it. I wish more people thought not to link down services.
- monkeydata 7y agoyeh... but, we sorta live and die by the evidence. We can't just blindly assume OP is correct. Thankfully, OP knew that and saved us the hassle or typing it ourselves.
- JanSt 7y agoYou can be sure they are using circuit breakers etc. to avoid that.
- rinchik 7y agoWell, that's quite an insulting comment for the calendar team at G. I'm sure they are fine, this product is not a personal page with guestbook for your 20 friends and gifs on shared hosting plan.
- Nexxxeh 7y agoToday, I imagine it's the mildest insult they're receiving.
- smpetrey 7y ago404's 503's aside, should we speculate as to what the issue is?
- sp332 7y agoYes, wildly.
- kyrra 7y agoI assume the mobile app is still working for people? (Mine is)
- tootie 7y agoProbably cached?
- SamiG28 7y agoGoogle Calendar down in Malta too. Same 404.
- gadrev 7y ago404 Spain
- faeyanpiraat 7y ago404 in Hungary aswell
- halfmatthalfcat 7y agoRough past couple of weeks for Google.
- bluetidepro 7y agoSurprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?
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- butler14 7y ago"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar."
- twostorytower 7y agoIt's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.
- db48x 7y agoI guess technically the "server" is responding, so...
- bluetidepro 7y agoEdited my comment to just say the same thing. Haha What's the point of them then?
- michaelmior 7y agoIt's certainly helpful to know that Google is aware of the problem and fixing it.
- hknd 7y agoThese pages at Google/Amazon/Netflix are updated by the incident response team, so it's a manual task.
- SilasX 7y ago
- flanbiscuit 7y agoThis is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there? Previous one was only 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
- agumonkey 7y agoAnd with the chrome/adblock mess it feels a lot worse. My opinion is worth nothing but Google feels like a crumbling cookie now.. it used to be a cool addition to one's life.
- unixhero 7y agoWelp it still is.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> What is going on there? Nothing but anecdote, but a lot of my friends at Facebook and Google are eyeing the exits. They’ve made good money and can afford to go somewhere better aligned with their values. They’re also each remarkably talented. These outages may be a reflection of that exodus. (Counterfactual: we started our careers at the same time and are nearing a natural switching point simultaneously.)
- ctvo 7y agoHow do you think it relates to the failures exactly? Employee quality is down? The servers had someone manually monitoring them and they quit so now the servers are quietly on fire? What's the theory? Hint: companies at Google's scale do not have a single point of failure where employees slowly trickling in or out can impact their infrastructure in this way. You would see many more failures in this case. The tenure for the average employee is ~2 years.
- quotemstr 7y agoAre you suggesting that quality of services offered is invariant of employee quality?
- Vector919 7y agoWhat's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with
- amelius 7y agoI hope that their problems will be limited to just outages, and they will not start spilling user information.
- smpetrey 7y agoEver since John Giannandrea left Google, seems like Google's product movements have been a little rough. Not sure if it's coincidence.
- ma2rten 7y agoHe led search and research. It has absolutely nothing to do with the calendar and cloud outages.
- brobdingnagians 7y agoNow I'm curious when the last time Google search went down? they must lose a lot of money everytime that happens. or is that one of those services where they spend ridiculous amounts of money and talent on making sure it never goes down?
- amelius 7y agoI'm guessing that Google search is easier to distribute over a larger set of machines, since the data it uses is static to a large degree and less bound to specific users.
- travisjungroth 7y agoSearch also has the possibility of degrading nicely, unlike a calendar. You could store the top million sites in some backup service and drop down to string matching if you had to. Searching for “how to train a hunting dog”? Here’s the Wikipedia page for Dog. Best of luck.
- faeyanpiraat 7y agoAlso I would like to point out an interesting side effect that the #1 result in google for "Google calendar 404" is down with a "Too many requests" error :D
- djsumdog 7y agoI moved off to Radicale years ago: https://radicale.org/ https://radicale.org/ I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones) I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit. Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radicale https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...
- db48x 7y agoI did the same, but I use Sandstorm Oasis to host it (https://sandstorm.io/); https://sandstorm.io/); saves a lot of time spent sysadmining things.
- vorpalhex 7y agoYour link mis-linked. Should be https://sandstorm.io https://sandstorm.io
- ma2rten 7y agoI work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.
- diehunde 7y agowhat? true for Gmail?
- chipperyman573 7y agoThen what do they gain from it?
- jpalomaki 7y agoCompanies pay €€€ to use it for business. Free version was good introduction. One reason for using Gmail (which is generating ad money) is the integration with calendar. Getting travel bookings automatically in calendar is useful.
- draxofavalon 7y ago404 in Argentina too
- bubblewrap 7y agoFeminism?
- thecodelebowski 7y ago404 in Canada too.
- tmacro 7y agoDown in the bay area as well
- shantanujoshi 7y agoYEAH BABY 404's DAY OFF
- hlusa 7y agoIt first exhibited a lot of blank calendar pages for the end of 2019 onward, though June and July 2019 were still there. Then complete 404.
- thecodeboy 7y ago404 from India as well.
- rahuldottech 7y ago404 in India too
- hlusa 7y agoFirst months after July disappeared, then it went 404 in NY area.
- manigandham 7y agoThis is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.
- soverance 7y agoAt the very least, if you had your Google Calendar synced to your mobile device (with the Calendar app) you can still view your meetings offline. You just can't add new ones.
- starshadowx2 7y agoI work somewhere almost entirely integrated with GSuite for everything (Calendar, Gmail, Meet, Chat, Drive, Pixelbooks, etc) and it's a fun time right now.
- agentdrtran 7y agoChecker Plus caches calendar entries offline.
- revlolz 7y agoNope, business/enterprise is producing 404 as well.
- jxdxbx 7y agoThis is one of the many reasons why I don't use web apps. Google Calendar is just a dumb pipe connecting various instances of Fantastical for me.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoThis is the reality of offshoring your business infrastructure to the cloud. Yes, it can fail, and when it does you will have nothing to do but shout into the wind. You have no control over anything that could cause an outage, nor do you have any ability to fix it.
- jedberg 7y agoFor both the free and paid plans. I look forward to my tens of cents refund!
- rglover 7y agoThat explains why I couldn't book my client's appointment. API is throwing "503 Backend Error."
- hknd 7y agoLooks like it's back up for me
- hknd 7y agoCalendar is loading, but not my events o_O
- sidcool 7y agoYep, both consumer and Gsuite calendars are down.
- IceyEC 7y agoSeems like the whole backend is down as meet.google.com isn't showing scheduled meetings either
- KenanSulayman 7y agoJust got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!"). (Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)
- CalamityAdam 7y agoI'm assuming they never thought they'd need such an error page
- xtracto 7y agoIt spits a 404 for me haha, and an ugly 404 at that ( https://twitter.com/omarbaqueiro/status/1140991483740336128 https://twitter.com/omarbaqueiro/status/1140991483740336128 )
- senorsmile 7y agoCame here to confirm it's not just me! Still down.
- partiallypro 7y agoGoogle Meeting dial-ins aren't working for this reason, I suppose. Had a meeting this morning and no one could dial in or use Hangouts.
- nopriorarrests 7y agoWell I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar. I thought google can do better.
- RandomGuyDTB 7y ago404s here in Maine at 11:02a.
- arvinsim 7y agoThought something was wrong with Fantastical. It was Google then.
- Daniel_sk 7y agoInstagram is down too, coincidence? (https://downdetector.com/status/instagram https://downdetector.com/status/instagram)
- hknd 7y agoworks for me :|
- EthanV2 7y agoOver an hour into the outage, still no word at all from Google on the status page apart from "We're investigating"
- 7ewis 7y agoThey provide updates to customers, but I'm under NDA with them.
- devy 7y agoI think you meant "paid customers". Pretty much all the people wrote here are "customers" one way or the other. By "updates" if you meant the message in GSuite Admin account notification section, it's no more insight than what's describing here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc21ebe3962430b2e4ae2b52e3dde98f https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc...
- RobertoG 7y ago"You're not the customer; you're the product." That, by the way, and surprisingly for me, it seems it's a quote from 1973: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/
- 7ewis 7y agoYeah, paid customers. Not sure why I've been downvoted. The engineers there obviously have info before the public status page gets updated.
- hknd 7y agoIt's like with any big company: they'll have a bunch of SREs and SWEs working on it and trying to solve this asap, but it's probably too technical to give more details than "we're investigating".
- mikeryan 7y agoIt seems with these "Big Provider" outages its a cascading failure across a few systems as opposed to a single point failure which makes debugging a bit harder.
- suff 7y agoMicrosoft Outlook for Android shows zero appointments, at least once a week, and nobody posts about it. Shouldn't broken features make headlines regardless of whether the root cause occurs on the client or the server?
- nontekuser 7y agoNon-technical user here: why does Google make me use Captcha if it doesn't work? Error 503, etc. afterwards.
- afandian 7y agoConjecture: Security is a probabilistic thing. They have threat levels which are derived from real-time data and the predictability of behaviour. So if an individual suddenly changes browser or IP they might trip. Or if an entire IP range does the same thing, that might be a hint at a hijack. My guess is that something bad has happened centrally, which tripped the security heuristics as an unexpected event at a very high level. It then elevated the security for a very large number of users.
- hknd 7y agoIt's ddos protection. Probably a lot of users are trying to refresh calendar right now (which will probably hit the calendar service). If they put ddos protection in front of it, it won't hit the calendar service but the ddos-protection-service.
- QuadrupleA 7y agoWriting your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on. Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird little feature, etc. I can do it. I'm kind of an optimization / performance nut too, so they all run uber-fast, no perceptible delay from click to page / screen loaded (Sqlite is great for these kinds of things). Data is totally private and under your control. It's really nice. However, calendar was complicated enough that I just use Google's. Might be time to rethink..
- platz 7y agoI wrote my own bookmarking app last year https://github.com/jonschoning/espial https://github.com/jonschoning/espial ), and pretty sure I re-couped the value I get out of using it every day, being a somewhat obsessive bookmarker/archiver.
- proaralyst 7y agoWhat tools did you use to write the apps? I assume you had access to a good web toolkit?
- QuadrupleA 7y agoI used Python / Flask / Apache for server stuff, MySQL & Sqlite for storage, and jQuery & vanilla Javascript for frontend. But I'm sure any web stack would work.
- faissaloo 7y agoMy calendar app looks like this (granted I have a continuous write patch for nano but that's it): alias note="nano ~/notes.txt"
- MattSayar 7y agoThat's a cool project, and it's a cool trick to avoid a dependency on a large company's app. Buuut There's always going to be a dependency on your ISP, your web hosting provider's internet access and their hardware uptime/backup schedule, your neighborhood's telephone poles and wires, your utility company, your hosting company's utility company, etc. etc. etc. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and I try not to think about how fragile it all really is all the time.
- iblaine 7y agoGoogle Calendar being down for nearly an hour settles it. No meetings today. Everyone is free to 'work from home'!
- driverdan 7y agoBetter yet, allow everyone to work remotely every day and discover how much more productive they are.
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- ilmiont 7y agoI don't use Calendar but was able to spam F5 and after a few times, you seem to get in. About 1 in 15 times I'm managing to load it at the moment. Looks like some instances are live; but capacity is evidently a fraction of what it should be.
- nopriorarrests 7y agoAlmost 2 hours down. What a way to discontinue another product, Google!
- sequoia 7y agoAnyone notice that they do not use recaptcha for this page? Apparently old fashioned skewed text works fine to protect google's own services from bots!
- teilo 7y agoMan, June has just flown by. I can't believe it's 404 Error already.
- DebraP 7y agoWhen does Google expect the calendar to become available?
- DebraP 7y agoWhen is Google calendar expected to become available again?
- telmook 7y agoWhy no server backup best practices? There should be 2ndary and tertiary servers ready instantly.
- etskinner 7y ago2 explanations I can think of: - This is a backend failure, where all those servers that put together your calendar data and serve it to you as a webpage all use the same database/backend, which is having some sort of error. - The code that runs on those servers has a bug. They are all at or near the same version, so they all fail. Manual intervention needed to diagnose and fix the bug.
- stuxnet79 7y agoI guess it's time for all the Google engineers to put their LeetCode skills to the test.
- philip1209 7y ago<insert joke about inverting a binary tree>
- mav3rick 7y agoGoogle services have a good track record of uptime. You don't complain on the countless hours of uptime. HN hate at it again
- zealsham 7y agoI hope it’s not the work of bughunters