Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spite, before checking AWS availability myself. Shame on me.
I love this kind of fake news. It's like that scene from Scary Movie (can't remember which one) in which someone says "I heard the japs took out one in Kikoman" :')
Downdetector does not actually monitor the services. It aggregates user reports from socials etc. For large-scale incidents, the reports get really noisy and it will show that basically everything is down.
Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spite, before checking AWS availability myself. Shame on me.
Didn't have the feeling of a BGP issue, most services I was working with were reasonably quickly returning failures, as opposed to lingering death.
I love this kind of fake news. It's like that scene from Scary Movie (can't remember which one) in which someone says "I heard the japs took out one in Kikoman" :')
Well that's interesting. I wouldn't expect AWS or Microsoft 365 to be affected by a Google outage.
Who said it's a Google outage?
Google. https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/americas
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Wait, it's all Google?
Google was the first to report probably.
all cloud
"always has been"
Perhaps their detection logic is running on Google cloud /s
I believe Downdetector displays user reports.
Yea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.
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Downdetector in incidents like this is 100% misinformation.
Why
Downdetector does not actually monitor the services. It aggregates user reports from socials etc. For large-scale incidents, the reports get really noisy and it will show that basically everything is down.
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Who watches the watchmen?
(downdetector infra also likely affected)