How do I check if Google Cloud is having issues?

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

How can I get alerted when Google Cloud goes down?

Set up a free monitor for cloud.google.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 Google Cloud status page?

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

Why do GKE clusters keep running during a GKE control-plane outage?

GKE splits the control plane (where kubectl commands hit) from the data plane (where workloads run). Control-plane incidents block new deployments, rolling updates, and kubectl access, but existing pods continue serving traffic because node-level kubelets operate independently.

Does BigQuery downtime affect data stored in Cloud Storage?

No. Cloud Storage and BigQuery are separate services with separate data paths. BigQuery queries that read from Cloud Storage (external tables, federated queries) fail during BigQuery outages, but the underlying data stays accessible via Cloud Storage APIs and other tools (e.g. gsutil, Spark).

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

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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) runs Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, Vertex AI, and dozens of other services across multiple regions globally. GCP outages tend to be scoped per service per region, similar to AWS. BigQuery outages are particularly visible because analytics teams see dashboards and ETL pipelines fail simultaneously. GKE control-plane outages block deployments but leave running pods alive. Notable GCP incidents have had wide blast radius because several global services (Cloud CDN, Load Balancing, IAM) share underlying infrastructure across regions.

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

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Monitor Google Cloud automatically.

Get instant alerts when Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud down right now?

About Google Cloud

Monitor Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud down right now?

About Google Cloud

Monitor Google Cloud 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.