Gmail and Google Drive down globally today. Users are more used to social media servers being blocked than messaging services like Gmail.
According to Google, although Drive and Gmail have fallen globally, it is partially so. I mean, it may work for some. From Google they emphasize that they are investigating the scope of the problem. For now they do not qualify it as a service failure, but as a partial error in its operation.
Gmail problems are trending on Twitter
Gmail, Docs, Drive and more Google services affected by widespread outage https://t.co/7ggcgEc8Kd pic.twitter.com/CTvjKwOC88
— The Verge (@verge) August 20, 2020
Users who are registered on Twitter go to the social network to find out if it is true that Gmail has fallen. Twitter has become a ‘consultant’ for certain aspects of mobile phones and their services. There are users who have stated that 2020 “cannot get worse” with the fall of Gmail. And other users of the social network are happy to use other messaging services to send emails.
But how do you know if it really has fallen or if it is because of the connection. Thanks to various websites it has become somewhat easier.
Gmail Down: How to Check Google Email for Problems and Failures
The web that stands out the most to check if there are any errors is G Suite Status Dashboard, where it indicates the status of all Google services. The status of all your services on a single website. In addition, it not only tells you if it has crashed or has an error, but also informs you of the latest updates.
When entering the page directly, it indicates that Google Drive and Gmail have problems and that they give errors. The errors appear in a kind of calendar with dates. So you can see that, in addition to Gmail and Google Drive, Google documents, Google Meet and Google Voice, among others, fail.
The web is very visual, so it is easy to know that there is a mistake, since it is in orange. Clicking on it brings up the errors. Google services are in ‘service outage’; The website explains that they will provide a new update after 10:00 am detailing when the issue will be fixed.
During the early hours of this Thursday, users from all over the world have reported problems using Gmail services, especially to be able to send attachments.
According to the Downdetector portal, most of these problems would be occurring in Australia, Asia and Europe, as well as in some parts of the United States.
For its part, G Suite Status Dashboard reported that there is a “service interruption” of Gmail and that they are investigating the causes of this fact to be able to repair it as soon as possible.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn