Google Workspace Outage History

Google Meet experienced intermittent issues on 6:49 PM UTC (11:49 PDT) that disrupted meetings for a subset of users. The Google Workspace status page described intermittent connectivity affecting Google Meet and noted that engineers were investigating. The incident prompted two official updates as teams worked to restore service, and the problem was resolved about 50 minutes later with Meet returning to normal by 9:12 PM UTC (21:12 UTC).

Google Workspace experienced a service degradation affecting Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Meet, Google Chat, Google Voice, Google Cloud Search, and Google Tasks. Users reported issues such as emails not loading, meetings failing to load, and trouble accessing documents across the suite. The incident began around 5:58 PM UTC (10:58 PDT) and persisted until 7:57 PM UTC. The official status page listed nine affected components, all moving to a degraded state before services returned to normal. The incident prompted ongoing updates from Google as engineers investigated and worked to restore full functionality.

The outage began on Jun 9, 2025 11:32 PM UTC and was resolved by Jun 10, 2025 12:12 AM UTC. Google Classroom experienced elevated latency within Google Workspace, causing delays in loading, submissions, and collaboration without a full service outage across Google Workspace. The issue affected the Classroom component and lasted about 40 minutes. Google posted two status updates during the incident, first noting that Classroom was in a degraded state and later confirming restoration of normal operation. User reports came from multiple regions, including the United States, Guatemala, and Japan, indicating a broad geographic footprint.

Google Drive within Google Workspace briefly experienced an issue where the right-side panel showing suggested prompts (for example, 'summarize') did not appear during PDF previews. There were no error messages and no workaround available. The issue appeared to be limited to the Drive UI and did not indicate a broader service disruption. The outage began on 10:07 AM UTC and was resolved by 10:12 AM UTC, lasting about 5 minutes. The Google Workspace status page issued 2 updates during the incident.

AppSheet applications and Looker Studio dashboards were not displaying as expected, causing AppSheet apps to fail to render in Looker Studio and dashboards to show errors. This outage disrupted users relying on AppSheet integrations for data visualization and reporting.

The incident began on 5:00 PM UTC and a rollback was pursued with mitigation targeted by 2:45 AM UTC. The provider issued 2 status updates during the incident. The status transitioned to degraded at May 23, 2025 2:07 AM UTC and the service was restored by May 23, 2025 2:17 AM UTC. The outage lasted roughly 9 hours.

Google Workspace experienced elevated error rates across its core apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Users reported issues submitting forms, chat failures, and sluggish responses, affecting collaboration and productivity across regions worldwide.

According to the Google Workspace Status Dashboard, the incident started at 3:52 PM UTC with multiple services degraded and persisted until 7:07 PM UTC when status returned to normal. In total, the provider issued 2 status updates during the incident, confirming degraded performance across six components and then restoration. The outage lasted approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes, with reports of global impact across Docs, Gmail, Chat, Meet, Sheets, and Slides.

Google Workspace's Gemini component experienced an outage affecting gemini.google.com, with users encountering errors such as Gemini is currently on a break. The incident began at May 13, 2025 3:42 AM UTC and lasted about 1 hour 10 minutes, with the service restored by May 13, 2025 4:52 AM UTC. User reports started around 2:45 AM UTC and continued through the incident, indicating a localized impact to Gemini users.

The Gemini outage prompted Google Cloud Workspace to provide updates; the provider issued 2 status updates during the incident, describing initial investigation and subsequent restoration of Gemini. Access to gemini.google.com returned to normal after the incident window.

Google Drive and Gmail experienced PDF rendering issues, followed by Google Chat also being affected, impacting how users could view or display certain PDF files. The degradation began on 3:37 PM UTC and, after an initial update, Google Chat joined the list of affected services. The incident persisted for a little over 17 hours across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Chat, with restoration completed by 8:57 AM UTC.

Google Workspace Support experienced a brief degraded performance affecting access to the support portal and case creation. Users could access Google Workspace Support but were seeing error messages, high latency, and other unusual behavior during the event. The incident began at Apr 16, 2025 1:27 PM UTC and lasted about 30 minutes, with resolution by Apr 16, 2025 1:57 PM UTC. The provider posted two status updates during the outage, outlining the investigation and the eventual restoration.

User reports described loading issues and delays when interacting with Google Workspace Support, including difficulty creating cases.

Google Workspace reported a temporary degradation in chat support functionality for Google Workspace Support customers. The issue affected the chat channel only and did not indicate a broader outage across Google Workspace services. The incident began at 7:12 AM UTC and was resolved by 11:37 AM UTC, lasting about 4 hours and 25 minutes. Google Workspace posted two status updates during the incident. A user reported issues around 10:56 AM UTC from Moldova.