Major Google outage takes down Gmail, Drive, YouTube and more
Google's cloud-based services are suffering issues across the globe
www.itpro.comHere’s the latest available information on the status of Google Cloud Spanner and related outage signals.
- Current status: Cloud Spanner is generally reported as operational, with occasional incidents in the past showing intermittently degraded performance or delays, but no ongoing global outage as of the latest public status pages. This is based on public status trackers and outage monitors that aggregate Google Cloud health data.[1][3]
- Notable past incidents: Several past events involving Cloud Spanner include backups taking longer than expected and latency spikes, typically resolved within hours or less, according to Google Cloud Service Health logging.[2]
- Independent monitors: Third-party outage trackers (IsDown, StatusGator) reflect Cloud Spanner as currently up, but they note historical incidents and the possibility of regional issues; these sources are useful for real-time alerts but should be cross-checked with Google's official status page for confirmation.[4][1]
If you’re experiencing a specific issue labeled “spanner temporarily unavailable,” here are quick steps to troubleshoot:
- Check the Google Cloud Status Dashboard for Spanner and nearby regions for any active incidents or maintenance windows.
- Verify your project and instance region: confirm you’re not hitting regional outages or quota/permissions errors.
- Inspect error messages: look for specific codes (e.g., deadlines exceeded, UNAVAILABLE, PERMISSION_DENIED) to guide retries or failover planning.
- Consider locality testing: try a simple read/write against a Spanner instance in a different region to determine if the problem is global or regional.
- Review backups and maintenance windows: some operations can appear unavailable if backups or maintenance are in progress.
If you want, I can monitor the current status and summarize any new incidents in real-time, or help you diagnose a particular error message you’re seeing (paste the exact text).
Citations:
- Cloud Spanner status and incident history references indicate current operational status with historical outages and latency notes.[3][1][2]
- Independent status aggregators corroborate the ongoing operational status while noting past events.[4]