Is Gemini down right now?
Live public-endpoint check for Gemini (gemini.google.com). We compare EU and US reachability, then link to the provider reference for broader context.
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About Gemini
Gemini is Google's AI assistant family, spanning the consumer app at gemini.google.com, Gemini integration inside Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets), Gemini Advanced (paid tier), and the developer Gemini API on Vertex AI and AI Studio. Outages typically fall into consumer-side (gemini.google.com chat failing, image generation producing errors, Deep Research stuck) and API-side (Vertex AI endpoints returning 5xx, quota exhaustion even well below limits). Workspace-embedded Gemini features ("Help me write" in Docs, smart reply in Gmail) fail silently during outages, degrading gracefully back to the base product rather than showing error banners.
The official Gemini status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.
How Gemini outages affect production workloads
Developer-platform outages have outsized impact because they cascade. When Gemini is degraded, every customer's build pipeline, deploy hook, or webhook delivery can stall, and the failure mode often looks like a customer problem before engineers realize the dependency is the cause. CI runs hang, status checks never report, and queued jobs pile up silently.
The live check above provides independent public-endpoint evidence from EU and US, including status and response timing. That helps separate a broad reachability problem from a local client issue, but it does not execute your private API call, build, webhook, or deploy. Test the exact dependency path before attributing the incident to Gemini.
Common signs Gemini is having issues
- API rate limits returning earlier than the documented thresholds
- Webhook deliveries showing 5xx errors or unusual latency tail
- Deploy or build hooks accepted by Gemini but never firing downstream
- OAuth or token endpoints failing intermittently for the same client credentials
What to do when Gemini is degraded
When Gemini is having trouble, the fastest mitigation is usually feature-flagging the dependency off if your application can degrade gracefully. Check the multi-region results on this page first; if both regions report healthy but your application still sees failures, the issue is likely your network path or DNS, not Gemini itself.
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Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor Gemini on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track Gemini uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.