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It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2eo4R29 https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF
by fidotron 1y ago
It's completely nuts that Firebase has this:
https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2eo4R29 https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e...
"Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage"
While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it.
Edit to add: within 10 minutes of this post Google updated their status page. More curiously the Firebase page I linked to has been edited to remove mention of Google Cloud in the status and now says "Firebase Data Connect is currently experiencing a service disruption. Please check back for status. ".
- cyberflame 1y agoServices are recovering in some locations it seems - Discord is healing
- alexcroox 1y agoCF too: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- kjuulh 1y agoSomething must be preventing them updating the status page at this point. Of course they could still deem it not enough, but just from my limited tests, docker, buf, etc (it may not be GCP that is down, but it is quite the coincidence). are outright down. I'd wager that this is much more widespread.
- sss111 1y agoI'm actually on a bridge call with Google Cloud, we're a large customer -- I just learned today that their status page is not automated, instead someone actually manually updates it!
- paulddraper 1y agoMost status pages are manual. At least some of the information has to be. The weird part is that it took them almost an full hour to update it.
- paxys 1y agoThat's the case with every status page. These pages are managed by business people not engineers, because their primary purpose is to show customers that the company is meeting contractually defied SLAs.
- belter 1y agoSurelly no SLA will be based on the display of the status page...
- Tostino 1y agoshould* be
- phatskat 1y agoMaybe or maybe not, but someone with nothing better to do than monitor that page out of boredom might “get on the horn” with lots of people to complain if a green check mark turns to a red X.
- paxys 1y agoThey aren't automatically based on that page, but seeing a red status makes it too easy for customers to point to it and go "see you were down, give us a refund".
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- redeux 1y agoThis is actually the norm for status pages. If you look at the various status page offerings you'll see that they're designed around manual updates.
- codergautam 1y agoMaybe the outage is preventing them from updating that specific page? Hmm EDIT: Looks like it has been updated now (6:49 PM UTC)
- samdung 1y ago:))))))
- devMem 1y agoI hope this is the case, or google is super unreliable for production grade work.
- alexcroox 1y agoAlmost an hour to update the page...
- artooro 1y agoAnytime there is an outage that affects App Engine, Google can't seem to get their status page updated for an extended period of time.
- samdung 1y agoGCP just updated their status
- aetherson 1y agoMore likely they are unable to update their own status page, but in either case not covering themselves in glory over at GCP right now.
- cherioo 1y agoThis extra funny that GCP status page even includes a “last updated” time, which is exactly built to convey possible failure to update in cases like this No major incident as of “ Last updated time: 12 Jun 2025, 11:48 PDT”
- ike2792 1y agoMaybe their dashboard is hosted on GCP and they are displaying a cached version. :-)
- blibble 1y agolies, from big tech? say it's not so!
- Workaccount2 1y agoI asked testing to see if it was up, and it pointed out that Google shows nothing but Nest is showing an outage right now, lol https://status.nest.com/posts/dashboard https://status.nest.com/posts/dashboard
- octo888 1y agoStatus pages are PR. It gets the same PR treatment as anything else
- shmatt 1y agoIIRC status pages drive customer compensation for downtime. Updating it is basically signing the check for their biggest customers, in most similar companies you need a very senior executive to approve the update On the other side of this, Firebase probably doesn't have money at stake making the update
- aiauthoritydev 1y agoIt is not the status page that drives customer compensation. It is downtime.
- camdenreslink 1y agoThe status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.
- dijit 1y agothen it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own
- Tijdreiziger 1y agoThat’s what Downdetector is. https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- hugs 1y agoworking on it! (valet network)
- refulgentis 1y ago"It can", this is just free-associating, don't let it get to ya. (disclaimer: xoogler)
- shuntress 1y agoWe tried to do that. It didn't work. Too much spam, scams, and abuse.
- nailer 1y agoAWS has this all the time. If you need to know if a service is down in a region, check for other engineers talking about it on X.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]