In response to its extended Gmail outage yesterday, Google has just launched the Google Apps Status Dashboard. The dashboard offers an at-a-glance look at the system health of most popular Google services, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and the company’s suite of web-based document editors. Google has been pretty good about responding to down time with blog posts alerting users with status updates, but having a dedicated page seems like a much better solution (especially for users who don’t follow Google’s blogs).
The news is in line with recent trends seen by other popular web services, like Twitter, which now offers its own dedicated Status Update. Given that users (especially business customers) are becoming increasingly reliant on Google’s cloud based services, this is a welcome move, though I’m hoping we won’t have to use it too often.
For more, check out Google’s blog post here.
This is excellent. I guess something good came out of the gfail fiasco after all.
Anjali Sen
The girl above is a spammer. She makes sure she is the first commenter on every single TechCrunch Blog post. All I have to say is LOL, you must be hurting for traffic and you must have a lot of time on your hands. Maybe try looking at your business model and see if you can actually address a need for society with your time.
That’s right Adrian.
I have seen her commenting on each post of Techcrunch.
Probably she is rigging for Techcrunch.
How about have a downvote/upvote option next to a comment ? If a user gets more than say X number of downvotes make the comment invisible. (HackerNews does that …)
@TC/Jason: What is your opinion about people commenting for the sake of getting traffic ?
Anjali
Don’t let these trolls get to you. You provide some of the more intelligent commentary on Techcrunch.
I know in the past some anonymous TC commentators have made racist and sexiest comments toward you … juts ignore them. All the intelligent people on Techcrunch do.
Fellow brother from India,
Rajat
And she probably doesn’t even realize that her links are no-followed. The funny thing is she tries to actually sound informed about Web 2.0. Very lame.
Nice one….
Search engines are smart enough to ignore comments for page rank reasons.
Smart babes are not that smart, I understand.
@Utopia
No, I think that TechCrunch manually no-follows all of the comment links if I remember correctly. It would be absolutely awesome if search engines were able to distinguish comment sections from other sections of websites and did not follow the links.
I like reading her comments.
Dudes, I heard Gmail was brought down the dot army from http://www.anonboard.com. That’s what I heard.
Yep i heard that too….
Yes finally, something like this has come out. I can’t say how much I panicked when I thought that I had lost all of my mails.
Why didn’t Google do something like this before???
I think this was already available inside the company and they have just publicized it ;-)
I was just going to say how annoying it is.. do you get paid for all of your spamming?
What is up with your shitty PR0 blog?
HEY YOU RETARDS,
This comments section is not the place to talk about other posters.
The Smart Sexy poster whatever at least said something relevant to the article.
We don’t want to listen to your catty retarded SEO fights. I hope Google bans you all. If you disagree with the article or the poster, then say so, but
STOP TAKING UP SPACE WITH COMMENTS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE!
Agreed. She is not as conspicuous in TC comments as everyone claims (I never noticed her before, anyway) and her comment was polite and relevant. The locator.com guy, on the other hand, should be banned from the Internets. Forever. He doesn’t even *pretend* to care what the article is about – he just spams away.
http://anti-locator.com?
*grrrrrrrr*
Yes , Google fixs the Outage immediately ,shows the outage to all and improve products. so Google is excellent,I love it very much.
No, i guess not.
I am still (since 27/2) blocked of adding new appoinments in Calendar.
“Given that users (especially business customers) are becoming increasingly reliant on Google’s cloud based services…”
-> Ouch.
Very. Bad. Idea.
Every company in existence has problems with making things execute perfectly all the time. Google G Mail may have been down for a few hours, but that type of thing is expected once in awhile. I think that Google is one of the most accountable and forward thinking companies in the world and we should give them a bit of a break. They provide some of the best tools on the Internet, and their new browser Chrome, is one of my favorites right up there with Firefox.
I want to take this time to say thank you to Google for your innovative ways and for making the Internet and Computers more competitive by challenging Microsoft and their business practices.
Raise a glass for Google, and pour a little out for the people who had email issues!
Respect from Adrian Eden to you!
Hey Adrian.
Whats up with
“Raise a glass for Google, and pour a little out for the people who had email issues! ”
Stop listening to too much hip hop.
But if you live in the hood. I’ll give you a pass.
I live in Vancouver Canada, have seen many “hoods” around the world, including Colombia. I was very influenced by Urban Culture as a young man, so it comes through when I engage Socially. Hope you don’t mind! Have a great week!
Hey you Vanilla Ice poser … your blog sucks. Your picture makes you look like a complete douche
“Adrian Eden,
Writer. Thinker. Lover.”
Did you forget Loser?
LOL High School.
A welcome move, but a risky one. Imagine the outcry when it goes down…
@Alex – Would that be a different kind of outcry from the usual outcry.
Yes. Considering it’s an uptime status dashboard, it’d be chalk full of irony:D
Finally an updater, it’s been hard not to know when gmail is down especially as I’m using offline gmail.
TechFilipino
It would be nice if their RSS feed link pointed to an actual feed.
I didn’t even realize Gmail went down yesterday and I check it way to often. People don’t realize how much they rely on Google until it goes down.
Good move. Gmail is the best email application around.
Hey, the Feedburner RSS link is giving an error.
It says
A really well designed heath status dashboard, kudos to Google to not only opening up, but doing it very thoughtfully and effectively. Time will tell how real-time the status is on these pages, but I’m excited to see more and more cloud providers see the benefits of transparency.
Admirable. Although Google could have built a similar service to that of the London tube – where it tells you if its a Good service (lovely ride to work) or a poor service( get ready to the most awful day of your life and most likely have a punch out , whilst stacked like sardines in a can) kinda thing.
GMAIL has had a TON of tech problems. We happen to pay for the product which makes it even worse to handle.
What if the dashboard is down?
OMFG !!!! that’s an out-of-box thought!!!!
http://www.list.../cdmenupro-624/
Paying for Google ?
Gmail is fine, unless you are on mission critical, deadline and have real dollars at stake. The last time our corporate email went down, the sysadmin went down too. It’s hard to find a throat to choke over a message board.
Paul Lopez
I see some changes indeed. Was a problem with my Google docs but now it seems to be OK :)
Did anybody see it down tonight? I didn’t see it down, but a friend of mine did.
Try Picso http://www.orku...d=1089396232125
There has not been a single constructive or informative comment on this chain.
Just trite garbage from the usual bird brains who are virtually illiterate.
It is bad enough that Techcrunch content is going down the gurgler without these nonentities not only reading it but, unbelievably, commenting!
There is no Tech being ctrunched anymore. It looks more like Valleywag everyday.
This is off topic but I have to post it.
http://www.aolc...om_vivid_wm.swf
It’s local LA news. Jesus. still “up to”
I want to take this time to say thank you to Google for your innovative ways and for making the Internet and Computers more competitive by challenging Microsoft and their business practices.
Looks suspiciously similar to
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Even more similar to http://trust.sa...m/trust/status/ Salesforce has had this for over 1 yr now
Gmail is fine, unless you are on mission critical, deadline and have real dollars at stake.
http://twitter.com/google
came up today with lot of followers flocking, hope appstatus gets updated here as well
They are launching a companion product for horse owners. It remotely shows whether doors are bolted or not at their stables.
Good move, its better to act on your mistakes rather than wait for it to snowball later on.
Really clever/neat move
Very Impressive move……………
The forgot the most important and sclerotic one – Adwords.
The amount of issues I have with the adwords platform is never ending.
This is great! At least we users can now check the status almost instantly and don’t have to worry what’s happening when an app fails to work.
wild
hope I don’t have to use it too often…
This is awesome.
Yahoo has something similar for smallbusiness customers. Too bad my email search functionality has been out for over 2 weeks now.. :(
http://www.ysma...lbizstatus.com/
Wow dude, that is pretty cool dude.
RT
http://www.be-anonymous.us.tc
What is “awesome” is how little money, and how stupid you people look for posting those GODDAMN link all over the farking internet, with innane drivel!
How about adding a weekly/monthly/yearly availability in there?
It aint gonna change a gaddam thing!
Google Docs (spreadsheet) crashed on me for over 4 hours today.
Its good to see google being more open about their system status information.
Nothing worse than “do they know its broken?”
Well gmail is out again, Twitter shows its not just me, other google search and some other sites seem to work…. EXCEPT the one hosting the status page!!
Hillarious
So what’s the story TechCrunch.If i was sent a message during an outage,would I have to wait until Gmail came back on line to get that message,or would that message be lost forever?