Google Workspace outage, 4 May 2026

**Summary** Investigating elevated error rates with Gemini conversations. **Description** Mitigation work is currently underway by our engineering team. We do n...

Started
Resolved
8 May 2026, 18:53 UTC (after 4 days)
Impact
Not stated
Affected
Gemini

Is this still happening?

No. Google Workspace marked this incident resolved on 8 May 2026, 18:53 UTC, 4 days after it began.

Right now: Google Workspace reports all systems operational. (as of 5 Nov, 00:21 UTC) Live Google Workspace status

Last update from Google Workspace

Summary Gemini conversations may have experienced elevated error rates. Description The issue with Gemini has been resolved for all affected users as of Friday, 2026-05-08 11:53 PDT. The issue was triggered due to a combination of insufficient database resources, and application bugs. The database capacity issues were resolved, and further code changes are being made to mitigate the application issue. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue. Symptoms Affected customers may have experienced "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

8 May 2026, 18:58 UTC

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