How do I check if Gmail is having issues?

This page checks Gmail availability in real time. You can also monitor Gmail continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Gmail goes down.

How can I get alerted when Gmail goes down?

Set up a free monitor for gmail.com on Visual Sentinel. You will get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 10 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Gmail status page?

The official Gmail status page is at https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Gmail issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Why can I receive Gmail but not send during an outage?

Sending and receiving use different pipelines. Incoming mail is delivered to your inbox by Google's MX servers. Outgoing mail goes through Google's SMTP relay. A send-side incident leaves receiving intact while Compose failures happen.

Does a Gmail outage affect Google Workspace email for business users?

Usually yes, because both share backbone infrastructure. However, Workspace customers get faster incident communication through the dedicated Workspace Status Dashboard, and priority routing during capacity incidents.

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Check the status indicator above for real-time Gmail availability. If Gmail is down, you can also check their official status page at https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ for incident updates.

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Gmail is Google's email service, used by billions of consumers and a huge fraction of the workforce through Google Workspace. Outages affect different interfaces: the web UI fails to load, mobile apps stop syncing, IMAP/POP clients show errors, SMTP sending fails, or the Gmail API returns errors (breaking tools like Zapier email triggers, Salesforce Gmail sync, and email-based SaaS integrations). Consumer Gmail and Workspace-managed Gmail share infrastructure but have different SLA tiers, Workspace customers get incident communications through the Google Workspace Status Dashboard rather than help.google.com.

The official Gmail status page is at www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind. Visual Sentinel catches issues within 60 seconds, automatically.

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Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Gmail availability. If Gmail is down, you can also check their official status page at https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ for incident updates.

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About Gmail

Monitor Gmail automatically.

Get instant alerts when Gmail goes down, before your users notice. Visual Sentinel checks every 60 seconds from multiple global regions.

60-second checks

Know within a minute, day or night.

Multi-region

EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.

10 alert channels

Email, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Teams, Prometheus, webhooks.

free trial · no card required · cancel anytime

Is Gmail down right now?

About Gmail

Monitor Gmail automatically.

60-second checks

Multi-region

10 alert channels

Official status pageslag real outages.

Faster detection

Instant alerts

Multi-region verification

Historical data

Answers,in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.Get pinged when it breaks.

Is Gmail down right now?

About Gmail

Monitor Gmail automatically.

60-second checks

Multi-region

10 alert channels

Official status pageslag real outages.

Faster detection

Instant alerts

Multi-region verification

Historical data

Answers,in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.Get pinged when it breaks.

Official status pages
lag real outages.

Answers,
in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.
Get pinged when it breaks.

Official status pages
lag real outages.

Answers,
in plain English.

Stop refreshing status pages.
Get pinged when it breaks.