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Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?
Why do we even have status pages anymore.
- dna_polymerase 5y agoObviously there is no problem: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/#v=status https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/#v=status But I'm getting 500 anyway ;)
- BerislavLopac 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482669
- Andugal 5y agoAnd of course, like yesterday's AWS outage, their status page is all green: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/
- moneywoes 5y agoI guess status pages are a conflict of interest
- INTPenis 5y agoWhen you're too big to fail, why maintain a status page?
- 202112061130 5y agoRest and vest.
- teekert 5y agoThese pages are so useless. For my bank (which has its outages) I use this page: [0], which immediately starts to spike when there is something going on, while the official status page [1] lags by hours at best and never reports anything at worst. There is probably some money to be made by allestoringen.nl ;) [0]: https://allestoringen.nl/storing/rabobank/ https://allestoringen.nl/storing/rabobank/ [1]: https://www.rabobank.nl/particulieren/storing/ https://www.rabobank.nl/particulieren/storing/
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoThe founder of Allestoringen sold it to Ookla in 2018 [1]. It seems they do have an enterprise offering these days [2]. Re: banks, there is also the iDEAL status page [3]. [1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/142053/storingswebsite-allestoringen-is-overgenomen-door-bedrijf-achter-speedtest-punt-net.html https://tweakers.net/nieuws/142053/storingswebsite-allestori... [2] https://downdetector.com/enterprise/ https://downdetector.com/enterprise/ [3] https://beschikbaarheid.ideal.nl/ https://beschikbaarheid.ideal.nl/
- lupire 5y agoIt's updated now: how does it compare to observed reality earlier today? ---------- Incident began at 2021-12-08 08:40 and ended at 2021-12-08 10:20 (times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)). Date Time Description Dec 8, 2021 10:40 AM UTC The problem with Google Calendar has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Dec 8, 2021 10:31 AM UTC We're aware of a problem with Google Calendar affecting a significant subset of users. We will provide an update by Dec 8, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change. Users can experience 500 errors when using the public APIs, displaying the web page or are unable to sync. Please open Google Meet to see the calendar events.
- ISL 5y agoWorking for me -- Seattle.
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- kevinstubbs 5y agoYep me too. https://servicesdown.com/services/google-calendar https://servicesdown.com/services/google-calendar
- ohadron 5y agoAppears so. We can expect a productivity spike as many people are missing their meetings at the moment. https://downdetector.com/status/google-calendar/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-calendar/
- mywacaday 5y agoSlower than usual to load but have access
- zegl 5y agoYep, same here (in the EU).
- kashyapc 5y agoYeah; it is 500. But it works for me with `gcalcli`[1] — a Python command-line tool that uses GCal API. [1] https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli
- 12ian34 5y agoYes, and Google Meet is buggy and slow for me. Couldn't join my standup on desktop (managed on mobile).
- lukepothier 5y agoI thought I and all my colleagues were getting 500s, but then I checked the status page and saw a green check. Silly me!
- AndyJames 5y agoStatus pages of big companies like Google, Facebook etc. seems to never work. They are all green even when no one can access the service
- DelightOne 5y agoSounds like they don't have a status page, but just a placebo.
- ineedasername 5y agoIt probably causes no end of headaches fir IT departments and ISPs: *"The site is up, I just can't get to it. Fix my network!"
- GordonS 5y agoHah, I just did the same thing - before clicking through to the status page, I had a bet with myself that everything would be green. Imagine my surprise when indeed everything was green. If companies like Amazon and Google are going to outright lie on their status pages, why bother having them at all?
- chrisandchris 5y agoBecause somebody (customer) is monitoring the status page and measuring how long it was not green and hold you accountable for your service being down. So it‘s „better“ to update your status page afterwards when your legal team is all on board.
- saurik 5y agoThat doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all.
- mrwzy 5y agoYes. We did. But it seems to be back now.
- aargh_aargh 5y agoI had a problem, too. Intermittent 500, then Offline. Seems to work right now.
- oande 5y agoSeems like an intermittent issue... Got one or two 500 errors in the past 5 minutes, sometimes just loads very slowly.
- _trackno5 5y agoYes, both Gmail and Calendar are impacted. You can still access your calendar via https://calendar.google.com/u/0/embed?mode=week https://calendar.google.com/u/0/embed?mode=week This brings back the old UI (Google Agenda times). I'm amazed by how little that page downloads. I'm getting less than 1MB here. Gmail downloads 20MB to display my inbox.
- YetAnotherNick 5y agoHave you recently cleared your cache? For me gmail transfers 1.5 MB before displaying inbox and loading 40MB resources from cache. I am using default gmail config and latest chrome. I have 10s of thousands messages in inbox.
- _trackno5 5y agoThat might be it. But isn't it still nuts it loads such a huge amount of resources? 40MB is even worse
- asddubs 5y agoI've used html-mode gmail since way back when. it's really nice, fast and simple. Unfortunately at some point several months ago, google stopped respecting having set html mode as default. the only way to get it now is to append "/h" at the end of the gmail link manually (or click the "use html mode" button while it loads, but that usually leads to it registering the click just as it finished loading, trashing a random email because the trash button is in the same location of the screen) it's genuinely so frustrating, especially because if you use the html-link and then have to log in, it sends you back to javascript gmail again. I think this might actually be the thing that'll get me to switch from gmail, which I've been too lazy to do, but meaning to do for ages now the worst part I think is that you can't middle click to open new tabs. I don't know if it's just me, but I constantly find myself wanting to cross reference two things that require multiple tabs, and SPAs never let you open anything in a new tab (even though they could if they bothered to implement it).
- _trackno5 5y ago
- tinyhouse 5y agoSo now Google even copies AWS outages...
- johnisgood 5y agoAnd their status page. All green in both cases.
- john37386 5y agowhich they copied Facebook outages (former Meta)
- tinyhouse 5y agoYou didn't understand the joke. GCP was born by Google copying AWS.
- mft_ 5y agoNope - all good here. Personal and corporate Gmail/Gcal working currently.
- TruthWillHurt 5y agoThe calendar sidebar in mailbox does not load, but opening the full calendar seems to work. Interestingly, it asked me to fill a captca test. Could it be an attack?
- jakozaur 5y agoAnyone else got opinion that some sites such as social media, calendar apps should have scheduled one day mandatory outage per year by law :-). Certain customer may opt-out, but by default we should do global unplug once per year.
- jsty 5y agoAs a (virtual) pager carrier, you've got my vote to mandate it for every service!
- y4mi 5y agoI vote for once per quarter, with certain exceptions which have to keep running such as utilities etc. Outage should take a minimum of 8 hours
- exikyut 5y agoI once read a Twitter thread about the idea of an explicitly flaky AWS region. It honestly sounds like it would be a really interesting itch to scratch - VMs with explicitly bad network, bad disk, etc. You could specify the severity and randomness of failures, or what days you want things to crash. You could even go nuts and corrupt memory, or randomly trigger GPFs or fault random instructions. The best part is that the corruption could be cooperative, such that the initial handshakes of TLS connections always succeed, and things like database connections always establish correctly, and PID 1 never faults. So you always end up crashing somewhere obscure, infuriatingly annoying, and very interesting. I understand that both NFS and rsync-without-SSH don't carry any form of authenticity checksum (IIUC NFS encryption does provide this if you set up Kerberos). Would be fun to corrupt random packets so they get the same TCP+IP checksum, eh...? ;) And you could even go absolutely ballistic and borrow techniques from fuzzers like AFL to observe and trace long-running executions, and compute ways to trip a program up to get maximally divergent results. I wonder if you could build an inference model for that... Yeah, this sounds unreasonably fun.
- jakub_g 5y agohttps://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/zURR7mGQjom4ktGZcR5A https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/zURR7m... > 10:40 AM UTC The problem with Google Calendar has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. > Incident began at 2021-12-08 08:40 and ended at 2021-12-08 10:20 (times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)).
- matsemann 5y agoAfter refreshing a few times, I'm now greeted by impossible to solve captchas. https://imgur.com/a/GQhvUen https://imgur.com/a/GQhvUen Also, this isn't normal captchas where you can get sounds or stuff. These are completely inaccessible for many people.
- dskloet 5y agoDid it not accept "contour"?
- 8organicbits 5y agoI couldn't figure out the "t" on that one. Looked like an "r". I'd fail that one too.
- iso1631 5y agoIs contour a valid Norweigan word?
- jtbayly 5y agoI see conrollr
- q3k 5y agoThis is a typical anti-bot Google infra CAPTCHA. Happens if you suddenly fire off many requests, well known to anyone who ever attempted to scrape Google or even did a very quick burst of searches while trying to solve a problem.
- bullen 5y agoLast week Google Play was crashing on my phone over and over again (making the device an expensive paperweight over time since banking apps have mandatory updates)... I reinstalled and that fixed it for a short while and then after it started perma-crashing again I received the mail about mandatory 2FA, did that and since then no problems. We need to move away from these big companies NOW! Get your own HTTP, DNS and SMTP server (in that order), your own domains, host at home with fiber and lead-acid backup! Make your ISPs enable static IP and open DNS + SMTP ports.
- exikyut 5y agoNext time that ever happens have something like `adb logcat | tee log.txt` running in the background so you can actually figure out what's crashing. My old Android phone has gotten into a very sorry state, I badly need to factory reset it to fix it (eh, and maybe root it while I'm at it) once I get some data off of it - but the other day my bank app happened to be crashing, and I was able to determine it was because Chrome's WebView hadn't updated correctly. So (the Play Store has completely wedged itself and the app has disappeared, seemingly a catastrophically failed update) I grabbed an updated WebView APK from Ze Internetz, and yay, fixed. Although yeah, I can't really recommend that particular strategy as a particularly secure first-class solution... But watching logcat can be very useful. And you can at least wave the log info above your head like an annoying "I did my due dilligence" flag :P
- danuker 5y ago> mandatory 2FA > expensive paperweight Imagine if the expensive paperweight stops working as the mandatory 2FA.
- tomxor 5y agoGoogle 500 == new snowday ? :D I can imagine it now, workers eagerly awaiting the radio announcements over breakfast: "The following regions have Google datacenter outages..."
- iso1631 5y agoGotta love that SaaS reliability
- zild3d 5y agoMaybe google calendar runs on AWS
- ineedasername 5y ago>getting a 500 on their calendars If you have 500 meetings in Gcal on anything but a multi-year view, you may want to consider a new job.
- dominik-2020 5y agoI did
- TYPE_FASTER 5y agoIt must be running in us-east-1
- michaelbuckbee 5y agoIt would be more interesting if the status page also had a test function scoped to the specific user. For something Google Calendar it could OAuth, but for things like public websites/services it could do a HTTP GET (or whatever makes sense).
- triplelll 5y agoi've been getting a 'server problem [400]' in my music.youtube app on android for weeks when trying to play my own uploaded albums. reported through every channel i could find. i think nobody at G. is even trying to pretend they care. companies die once their legal dept. ends up in charge of everything. at G this happened around 2010.