The situation returns to normal

Google Calendar was affected by an outage that affected the PC version (via browser) and smartphone app. Either we encountered a 500 error message, or the calendar was not synced. Google is investigating to determine the cause, but in the meantime the situation has generally returned to normal.

Update (5:50 p.m.).

The situation returns to normal. You should be able to return to Google Calendar seamlessly now.

The original article was published at 4 p.m.

Is Google Calendar down? It looks like this, whether on your computer from a web browser or from the smartphone app. Number of reports on DownDetector It is increasing rapidly and has pretty much crossed the 700 mark in just a few minutes. In addition to the entire editorial staff Frandroid Facing problems.

Note that on DownDetector, more and more Internet users are complaining about problems with Google (in general). But this seems to be a side effect of the Google Calendar outage.

Google Calendar outage that disrupts service

On a PC, at best, the entire calendar is not displayed (the interaction buttons are not shown). Most often, after a few seconds, we encounter a page indicating error 500.

On a smartphone, the app seems to appear normally, but you only have to create an event to realize that it does not sync at all with other devices and other accounts. In other words, if you schedule an appointment in your calendar and send the invitation, the recipient will not be notified. The event is only available locally on the smartphone.

Google confirms and verifies

In the official workspace dashboardGoogle’s technical teams indicate that they are aware of the issue and have begun an investigation to determine the cause.

We are currently investigating reports of an incident involving Google Calendar. We will provide you with more information as soon as possible. Affected users can access Google Calendar, but see error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior.

Google has several categories for determining the severity of an issue. Here, in the case of the agenda, the company presents “ The service has crashed ” no “ Service interrupted “.