Is Google down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Google right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Google continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, email not arriving, search not working, API errors, files won't sync, can't connect and 5xx error pages. Those are the options the report button offers for Google, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Google specifically, Google is dozens of independent products sharing one sign-in, so Gmail can be broken while Search and Drive are fine. Workspace incidents also frequently reach a subset of accounts or a single domain rather than everyone. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Google, sign in to a different Google account in a private window, or open the same product on another device. One account failing while another works points at that account. Every product failing at once usually means sign-in rather than the products. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Google's side. Specifically: avoid resending an email that appeared to fail. Gmail queues sends during an incident and delivers them later, so resending means your recipient gets it twice. Offline mode in Gmail and Docs keeps recent content readable. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Google publishes a machine-readable status feed, so our first check reads it directly and reports what Google itself says. If that feed is unreachable we fall back to a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP ping, then reports from visitors. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard, and it is linked further up this page. That is Google's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Google or google.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Google's own support, not us.