Summary:: Google Chat users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view. Description:: We are experiencing an intermittent issue with Google Chat Friday, 2026-08-28 10:25 PDT. Our engineering team has investigated the issue and are currently working on mitigating the issue. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-08-28 14:15 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. Customer Symptoms:: Users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view Workaround:: Users can refresh to see new messages
Outage alerts
CheckedGet Slack alerts when Google Workspace goes down
Email alerts are free for up to 5 providers, and Slack, Teams, Discord, and webhook delivery come with paid plans. Every alert is driven by Google Workspace's official status feed, checked about every 10 minutes around the clock.
How to get Google Workspace outage alerts
- Create your free account. Sign in with GitHub, Google, or an emailed link on the account page. No password, no card.
- Add Google Workspace to your alerts. The 60-second onboarding asks which providers you rely on; pick Google Workspace and free email alerts are live immediately (up to 5 providers). Narrow the alert to one service if you only depend on part of it.
- Want it in Slack or Discord? Paid plans add those channels plus raw webhooks: create a subscription, paste your webhook URL, and press Send test to prove the wiring in seconds. The alert setup guide walks through creating the webhook URL in each app.
Why it matters
Recent Google Workspace incident activity
Google Workspace recorded 100% uptime across 55 monitored days in the last 90 days. The official feed logged 6 incident entries in that window. Those are exactly the changes subscribers hear about first.
Summary: Some customers may experience slowness while using Google Drive. Description: We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive beginning Tuesday, 2026-08-18 16:58 PDT. Our engineering team is currently working on a potential fix while continuing to investigate the full root cause. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-08-18 22:00 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. Symptoms: Affected customers may experience slowness while using Google Drive. Workaround: None at this time.
Alert on one Google Workspace service
Alerts can cover the whole platform or just the parts you depend on. Narrowing means you hear about incidents affecting that service, not every Google Workspace status change.
What triggers Google Workspace alerts
New incident
A fresh incident appeared on the official feed and started within the last 24 hours. Historical backfills never alert.
Incident update
An open incident moved through its lifecycle (investigating → identified → monitoring …).
Incident resolved
An incident was resolved upstream, or disappeared from the provider's active feed.
Status change
The provider's overall status flipped (e.g., Operational → Partial outage).
Every delivery is claimed exactly once per event, retried once on failure, and recorded, so overlapping check runs can never double-notify you. Alerts are driven by Google Workspace's official status source: the official Google Workspace status page remains the authoritative reference.
Prefer to pull instead of push?
Everything on this page is also machine-readable, free, and account-less: subscribe to the Google Workspace RSS feed, poll the JSON API, or embed the live Google Workspace status badge in a README or dashboard.
FAQ
Google Workspace alert questions
Short answers to what alert subscribers ask most.
How fast will I know when Google Workspace goes down?
OutageDeck checks Google Workspace's official status feed about every 10 minutes, around the clock. The first check that sees a new incident or a status change fires your alert immediately, so email, Slack, Teams, Discord, and webhook subscribers typically know within minutes of the official feed changing.
Are Google Workspace outage alerts free?
Yes. Every account includes free email alerts for up to 5 providers, no card required. Paid plans add Slack, Teams, Discord, and webhook delivery, more subscriptions, and higher API quotas.
Which Google Workspace events trigger an alert?
New incidents on the official feed (when they started within the last 24 hours), incident lifecycle changes, resolutions, and provider-level status changes. A subscription can watch just Google Workspace, and on a paid plan your whole stack or individual Google Workspace services.
Can I follow Google Workspace status without an account?
Yes. The Google Workspace RSS feed, the public JSON API, and the embeddable status badge are free with no sign-up. Alerts exist so changes get pushed to you instead of you re-checking a page.
Ready to stop refreshing status pages?
Free email alerts for the handful of vendors you cannot afford to miss. No card, live in about a minute. Paid plans add Slack, Teams, Discord, and webhook delivery across your whole stack, plus higher API quotas.