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Everything appears to be down as of 18:43 UTC... https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
by 0xffany 1y ago
Everything appears to be down as of 18:43 UTC... https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- AlienRobot 1y agoWait, it's all Google?
- plateng000 1y ago"always has been"
- deepsun 1y agoGoogle was the first to report probably.
- bananapub 1y agoall cloud
- patapong 1y agoPerhaps their detection logic is running on Google cloud /s
- throitallaway 1y agoI believe Downdetector displays user reports.
- brentm 1y agoYea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.
- lysace 1y agoKind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net. The have software running in most ISPs around the world: https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039164793-How-can-I-host-a-Speedtest-server https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039164793-Ho... (OTOH, it's not always trivial to define/detect an outage.)
- sillypuddy 1y agoWell that's interesting. I wouldn't expect AWS or Microsoft 365 to be affected by a Google outage.
- paxys 1y agoWho said it's a Google outage?
- AdamJacobMuller 1y agoGoogle. https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/americas https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/americas
- paxys 1y agoIt's more likely to be a broader issue that is affecting AWS, Microsoft, Cloudflare, GCP. They aren't all dependent on Google infra.
- ikiris 1y agoOh look, they were. Cloud flare was really the gcp problem. Most of the others are going to be dependencies on cf or random Google stuff. Discord for example was gcs for updates, etc
- voytec 1y agoYeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spite, before checking AWS availability myself. Shame on me.
- toast0 1y agoDidn't have the feeling of a BGP issue, most services I was working with were reasonably quickly returning failures, as opposed to lingering death.
- yard2010 1y agoI love this kind of fake news. It's like that scene from Scary Movie (can't remember which one) in which someone says "I heard the japs took out one in Kikoman" :')
- peanut-walrus 1y agoDowndetector in incidents like this is 100% misinformation.
- johanyc 1y agoWhy
- peanut-walrus 1y agoDowndetector does not actually monitor the services. It aggregates user reports from socials etc. For large-scale incidents, the reports get really noisy and it will show that basically everything is down.
- boneitis 1y agoI thought that was the whole premise of Downdetector, no? User reports, because first-party status updates are tightly controlled by those first parties? Was not basically everything (hyperbolically speaking, of course) practically impacted today? How much weight really comes from those social media posts? Is there an indirect effect of people reading these posts, then flocking to hit the report button, sight unseen?
- baobun 1y agoWho watches the watchmen? (downdetector infra also likely affected)