Google Drive outage, 13 March 2026

**Description** We are experiencing intermittent errors with Google Docs, Apps Script, Google Slides, Google Drive, Google Calendar beginning on Friday, 2026-03...

Started
Resolved
13 Mar 2026, 14:30 UTC (after 2 h 30 min)
Impact
Not stated
Affected
Apps Script, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Slides

Is this still happening?

No. Google Drive marked this incident resolved on 13 Mar 2026, 14:30 UTC, 2 h 30 min after it began.

Right now: Google Drive reports all systems operational. (as of 5 Nov, 00:11 UTC) Live Google Drive status

Last update from Google Drive

Description The issue with Google Workspace has been resolved for all affected users as of Friday, 2026-03-13 07:30 PDT. From preliminary analysis, the incident was triggered by resource contention in the impacted location, following a recent update. This led to elevated error rates and latency for several Workspace products. Our engineering teams mitigated the impact by increasing infrastructure capacity,performing traffic restarts, and rolling back the identified change We thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue. Customer Symptoms A subset of customers may have experienced elevated error rates when accessing the impacted products in the US region. Workaround NA. I...

13 Mar 2026, 14:56 UTC

Read the full incident on the official Google Drive status page

Similar Google Drive incidents

Earlier incidents with the same affected part or wording - useful to see how long this kind of problem usually takes.

  1. , resolved after 56 min

    **Title** Multiple Workspace Products experiencing Issues. **Description** We are experiencing an issue with Google Voice, Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Cha...Postmortem

  2. , resolved after 12 h 42 min

    **Summary** Some customers may experience slowness while using Google Drive. **Description** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive beginning Tuesday, 2...Postmortem

  3. , resolved after 37 min

    **Summary:** We experienced intermittent latency with Google Drive **Description:** The issue with Google Drive has been resolved for all affected customers as...Postmortem