Google Services Experiencing Disruptions

Re:Google Services Experiencing Disruptions by remus on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:20AM (#24587064)

What does 'actual status' mean though? If I'm running a website from a single server, the power goes out and the server goes down then it's kinda obvious. I don't think it's so obvious when you have hundreds of data centers serving traffic to billions of people. If one DC becomes inaccessible does that count as an outage? It'll sure feel like it to the affected users, but the vast majority can still use your service.

You need to draw a line in the sand somewhere, but whatever measure you choose is going to be somewhat arbitrary so I think it's reasonable to have a human make the final call (based on some known criteria).

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Re:Google Services Experiencing Disruptions by onedognight on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:26AM (#24588963)

> If one DC becomes inaccessible does that count as an outage? It'll sure feel like it to the affected users, but the vast majority can still use your service.

Then put that on the dashboard! It certainly is an outage for the affected users (by your scenario).

   - 999/1000 Data centers up
   - 100,000 Users without service
   - 6 paying customers without service (will get money back)

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Re:Google Services Experiencing Disruptions by tweenagedream on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:36AM (#24589028)

Except, sometimes a data center goes down and no one notices. So if a data center goes down, and no user around notices, is it really down?

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