Google Hangouts Outage and G Suite Status Dashboard (Discussion Prompt)

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6 points by Top5a 3267 days ago

Apologies if there is already a thread submitted by now.

It appears as though Google has been suffering some heavy outages for the past 30 minutes, and yet their G Suite Status Dashboard remains unchanged. This feels similar to what happened when AWS experienced their historic outage several months ago whilst their dashboard did not indicate any service problems.

Is there a particular reason why such dashes are so slow to update? What is the point of such dashboards if they do not update within a reasonable time? Here, defining reasonable time as 30 minutes, although I think I'm being generous.

Link to G Suite: https://www.google.com/appsstatus

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zackify 3267 days ago

Still down and having clients call me about it. Googleapis keeps throwing a 503 on and off. Why does the status page not update? How is this 99.999999 uptime?

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