Google Calendar is Down (google.com) 103
Multiple users are reporting this hour that they are unable to use Google Calendar service. Many attempting to visit the site say they are being welcomed with a "Error 404 and Not Found" error. The app is facing the issue, too. Google's status page does not show any anomaly with the service.
Update 14:40 GMT: Google has acknowledged the issue. In a statement, it said, "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar."
Update 14:40 GMT: Google has acknowledged the issue. In a statement, it said, "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar."
Confirmed (Score:4, Insightful)
Day off from work.
Re:Confirmed (Score:5, Funny)
I would love to confirm this, but I can't get to my calendar!
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For work, if it isn't a calendar invite, then don't expect anyone to show up. For your own personal calendar, there is no real value in cloud, other then syncing across different devices. However for work, having your calendar shared allows for meeting with multiple people be setup more easily without going back and forth trying to find when everyone is free.
Re: What is this for? (Score:2)
My wife and I run a shared cloud calendar. We can see appointments , doctors, notes, vacation days, delivery dates, etc.
As our kid grows up all of his activities will be there too.
It is far to easy to create a shared multiple user calendar and have it synced across 4-8 devices and computers. Including both of our phones tablets and computers.
We use Google as we use Gmail.
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I don't see the value of a "cloud" calendar. I keep all my calendar info on my phone. No one else has any reason to look it up.
Some of us work for a living. Other people need to be able schedule meetings and invite me. That involves finding a time when everyone is free, and an appropriate free conference room. So everyone needs a shared calendar, including the conference room.
Having it in the cloud, vs exchange, is a different story. I see Google Calendar problems 10x as often as Exchange problems over the past few years, but I'm not sure how much of that was Google vs internet in general. I used Outlook.com for a year for wo
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Re: What is this for? (Score:2)
My wife and I run each have our own plus one shared family calendar.
I can see doctor appoints, party invites, days off, vacation days etc and she can see all of mine.
While we talk about various things it is nice to know our kids next doctors appointment is on July xx. And what it covers.
How about doing some work instead? (Score:1)
Stop playing with google and do some work you lazy maroons ...
And if you complain that you cannot because you decided to "trust" some third party to run things for you, then act in accordance with your Risk Assessment. You knew this would happen and you chose to accept the Risk. Now shut the fruk up and accept!
Re:How about doing some work instead? (Score:5, Insightful)
When your office use to to Exchange for calendars. How many times a year has your calendar and email been offline? Twice a year probably?
Now Google is offline after years of availability. You are probably still better off and if you did a proper Risk Assessment you probably see a better uptime.
Most popular cloud services (Not just normal hosting services calling themselves cloud) is like flying, Statically you are safer, however when something does go wrong, there is little you can do to fix the situation, and if there is a problem there is a lot of people who get hurt at once.
We feel safer in our cars, because we have control, even though we are at much higher risk of injury or death.
We feel safer hosing our own software, because we have control, although downtime is normally much higher. Because it is often one to two it guys trying to keep the server running.
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By never experience an outage, did you fail to included planed outages. From system upgrades, or hardware updates.
Or are you running Exchange 97 on a NT 4 box running on a Pentium 2 server with 32 megs of RAM. And hopping nothing bad ever happens to get in your network.
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By never experience an outage, did you fail to included planed outages. From system upgrades, or hardware updates.
Exchange is cluster-able. At a large company with competent IT staff, it doesn't ever go down for maintenance. That's been true for, what, 15 years now?
Or are you running Exchange 97 on a NT 4 box running on a Pentium 2 server with 32 megs of RAM. And hopping nothing bad ever happens to get in your network.
There are probable NT 3.5 boxes somewhere that are in their third decade of uptime. The early NT was amazing durable. It had already started to slip by 4.0.
Re:How about doing some work instead? (Score:4, Interesting)
Exchange 365 has been down in the past (Score:3)
Exchange 365 has been down in the past
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Yeah, but my standalone calendar only goes "down" if I lose my phone, and if I worried about that I'd set up
a local backup service. Even better, with the standalone calendar, people actually have to ask you whether
you want to attend meetings instead of sending you an email at 2am and just expecting you to show up.
(I realize not everyone has the luxury of boycotting the centralized calendar at their workplace but boy is it sweet.)
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I am not sure you understand what a boycott is. Boycotting a product or service, isn't a luxury. What you are doing is choosing an other product because it better fits your needs.
I have an iPhone, I am not Boycotting Samsung phones, or the newer version of the iPhone which I am choosing to not get.
Real boycotts are refusing to use a product or service you actually want to use, but have some moral objection to it. And you should probably have conditions for you to end the boycott of the product.
The proble
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Real boycotts are refusing to use a product or service you actually want to use, but have some moral objection to it.
I didn't go into it, but I do have moral objections to it. More technical objections than
I do moral really... but I would probably use it if those were resolved.
I think you are being pedantic, however.
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I am not sure you understand what a boycott is. Boycotting a product or service, isn't a luxury.
A boycott can only be a luxury. If you didn't have it as a choice, you can't boycott it. If you're required to use it, you can't boycott it. You can only boycott something if it is available to you, and you choose to reject it for reasons not directly related to your use of the thing. That is the very definition of a luxury! It is an optional decision that you're paying some sort of premium for, in return for an extra intangible that is not normally included.
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It amazes how many people don't even realize that the centralized calendar at their workplace could be hosted on servers in the workplace instead of in the "cloud."
Even more don't realize that the google calendar stuff is just the standardized ical stuff, with branding. All the integration with email and other types of servers is standard. The only reason the google calendar app is locked to their servers is that they don't give you a setting for that.
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Yeah, but my standalone calendar
Let me stop you right there and bring you back to the flying analogy. Flying is safer than driving a car. No one cares about your example where you walked to work. We're talking about driving a car.
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When your office use to to Exchange for calendars. How many times a year has your calendar and email been offline? Twice a year probably?
Once in 10 years. And I see Google Office problems 1-2 times a year (mostly internet difficulties, but still). But that's a competently-managed Exchange server at a large company. If the choice is between Google Office and Exchange managed by "Bob's nephew who knows computers", obviously Google Office is going to work out better.
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We feel safer in our cars, because we have control, even though we are at much higher risk of injury or death.
I've spent a good deal of time thinking about how one's degree of control influences fear.
When I'm in control and a hazardous situation appears suddenly, I receive a jolt of sanguine invigoration. Time appears to slow as my neurons fire at an accelerated pace and I feel truly alive and connected to physical reality, as thoughts are bypassed in favor of immediate reflex response.
When I'm not in control, a similar elevation of awareness occurs, however as I'm not able to translate this energy into action,
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Prematurely pulling the emergency downtime lever is just as bad as the Downtime itself.
Where is the problem? Is DNS pointing to the wrong location? Are mobile users affected or just web users. Should we call in the Server Admins or the Programmers. Is the problem affecting just a particular location or around the world.
I have seen an influx of reports stating the product was broken, just because we had changed a color (so it was more visible on printing) or an outage affecting one node, and the users decid
Oh no! (Score:1)
How will I know what day it is!?
I also checked mobile sync (Score:2)
Let's schedule a meeting to discuss this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's schedule a meeting to discuss this (Score:4, Funny)
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When working at any company that relies on an elaborate ticketing system to get IT work done, it's always fun to ask "where do you report it if the ticketing system is down". Another fun question is "how do you know if the paging system is down".
Same from the Bahamas (Score:2)
It is what I am seeing...
Also, now a half calendar with no data...
drew
It's Dead Jim (Score:2)
Oh Yeah, Google is down. The chaos that has occurred is incredible to watch.
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As a doctor you really shouldn't be using Google Calendar, but the scheduling feature in your Electronic Health Record System, or Practice Management System. Google Calendar may be fine for the Admin Staff and Management, but for seeing patients you should really use a more specialized tool, especially ones that integrate the appointments to the medical record, to the billing information.
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Google Calendar seems kinda crappy TBH. The UI isn't all that good. Like they needed a calendar app for their suite but didn't put much effort into it.
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Yeah the UI is bad, which is why a lot of people use other clients that just pull data from google calendar... but that data feed seems to be affected too.
For personal calendar don't use Google so at least that's all working.
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Google Calendar seems kinda crappy TBH. The UI isn't all that good. Like they needed a calendar app for their suite but didn't put much effort into it.
You found the one thing in which you, I, and SuperKendall all agree.
The rain of frogs will be the next sign that the end times are here.
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https://weather.com/en-IN/indi... [weather.com]
It is always raining frogs in the rainforest.
Times are always ending.
Even right this moment, lunch time is ending. Byeeeeee.
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That's a take on "raining frogs" I had not seen before!
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Like they needed a calendar app for their suite but didn't put much effort into it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The user interface is the only part they did put work into, the rest is leftovers from the 90s.
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I use Apples iCal as frontend to google calendar.
But in relation to 15 years ago, the Apple interface sucks, too. However the implementation is more solid.
epic healthcare cloud can go down as well. (Score:2)
epic healthcare cloud can go down as well.
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It wasn't meant as a joke. Too many Doctors run their offices, with tools that are either not HIPAA complaint, or are truely useful for the organization.
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I did not know that patients have access to:
- Electronic Health Record System
- Practice Management System
etc.
His fault might be he used the google calendar web site. But there is nothing wrong with having a proper webcal client and hosting the appointments in a cloud, because the client will cache them!
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Well, if it works for you, then everything is clearly OK.
But guess what? It's not working for me and millions of others. And Google has acknowledged the issue.
Somebody Else's Computer (Score:3)
I keep hearing how cloud services have basically unlimited uptime yet my calendar is fine, sitting over here on a trivial vm.
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I bet the uptime for Google Calendar is higher than your VM
For the sake of argument, let's assume you're right that the absolute number of days that Google Calender has operated exceeds that of his VM. Let's even assume that it vastly exceeds that of his VM.
It doesn't matter, if Google Calendar isn't available when he needs it. What matters is how available the respective calendars are when they are needed. Google Calendar can be running for ten straight years, but be down all three times he needed it in those ten years. From a practical perspective, that gives
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I really doubt he's never had a power outage or internet outage
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It doesn't matter, if Google Calendar isn't available when he needs it. What matters is how available the respective calendars are when they are needed.
No, what matters is that we select the best outcome from the available options. Talking about magical unicorns doesn't save anyone.
What also matters is that by analysing the situation from the view of a specific user you have just shown to have failed a basic knowledge of statistics and reliability. By analysing the situation from the view of a specific user you have not only gotten a completely non-representative reliability figure, but you also have not at all correctly represented the demand rate for the
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Speaking as someone (not the OP) who runs 30+ VMs, on several disparate hypervisors, with redundant replicas, I can tell you:
No.
Technically, my on-site exchange, storage and other services are experiencing better uptime in 2019 than Google Apps (we're a full Google Apps user with 1m+ documents), Office 365 or even iCloud.
2018 was the same.
It doesn't mean I'll *guarantee* it. But actually achieving a decent uptime with decent kit is quite easy. The cloud is not infallible - hasn't been since the days of Ho
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How often do you shut down that VP, or reboot it from updates, what will happen if the Computer that your VM is running on crashes.
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You boot up another machine, pull the VM storage over, click the Play button.
VM's are brilliant for that, it's almost like someone designed them to be hardware-agnostic.
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You also turn it off every night.
Oh no... Google is down.... (Score:2)
Never fear, Alphabet's engineering team is googling the error message to find the solution...This could take a little while..
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Calendar can work offline.
As can most of the Google Apps suite.
Hell, I have an entire school of kids who work offline and then sync their docs to their Google Account when they come into school next.
The thing about cloud is - don't rely on JUST cloud. It's great as a primary, secondary or backup, but not all three.
No issues for me (Score:1)
I'm not having any issues with Google Calendar right now...
It is a cloudy day (Score:1)
Google Cal. is down. Mobile will catch back up (Score:4, Informative)
And if you are working from a non mobile device, you can have Google Calendar sync to your local calendar. Meaning, again. It will sync up when Google Calendar comes back online.
This is a geek site right? We all know how to figure these type of things out. Right?
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This is a geek site right? We all know how to figure these type of things out. Right?
Oh hush, let the boys get their hate on.
Traditional calendar - anyone? (Score:2)
My calendar has an uptime of over 50 years. It hangs on the wall and anyone in my family can use it. It is made of paper (fully recyclable and even compostable) and every month there's a new, beautyful wallpaper topping the entries. It works also when the Internet is unreachable and even when there's a power outage. We feel no need to repace it with some cmbersome, fragile and faulty hi-tech. YMMV
CERTAINLY, hacking/cracking from Russia or China! (Score:2)