Is Gmail down?

The status at the top of this page comes from Hyperping checks of Gmail, run every minute and refreshed on the page every 60 seconds. Green means the latest checks succeeded; red means they are failing, confirmed from several regions.

We monitor 2 Gmail services every minute, in turn from Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore: Gmail on the web (mail.google.com, up on a successful response) and Gmail API (gmail.googleapis.com, up on a 401 response). When a check fails, other regions check again before that service counts as down. Gmail counts as down when all of them are, and as partly down when only some are. Without an account, mail.google.com sends us to the Google sign-in page, so we check that Gmail and Google sign-in answer, plus the Gmail API that connected apps use. Neither proves that your inbox loads.

An outage can be partial: one feature, one app, one country or one internet provider, and our checks see Gmail from data centers. Try another network such as mobile data, update or restart the app, and check the official status page for an incident on one feature.

Yes, Google Workspace Status. Gmail's team updates it by hand, so it can lag behind the start of an outage; our checks run every minute whatever it says.

Yes. Create a free Hyperping account and add mail.google.com as a monitor: you are alerted by email, Slack or your other channels within a minute of a failure. The free plan includes 20 monitors, enough for your own site and the services it depends on.