Tech Platform Status
Big-tech services and AI tools — checked live from our servers.
When Google, Microsoft, or a major AI assistant stumbles, half the internet’s workflows stumble with it. Email stops syncing, documents won’t open, and chatbots return errors mid-conversation. This page collects our live checks for the biggest tech platforms and AI services in one view. Each service is probed automatically every 15 minutes; open its dedicated page for a live on-demand test, response-time history, and service-specific troubleshooting.
Google Search is the backbone of the web for most users — genuine google.com outages are so rare that when search fails, the cause is almost always local: DNS, browser, or network trouble on the user’s side.
Gmail is Google’s email service with billions of accounts. Its outages tend to be partial and specific — attachments failing to send, messages delayed for hours, or the web app stuck loading — and are logged on Google’s Workspace dashboard.
OpenAI operates the API platform behind GPT models plus consumer products like ChatGPT. API incidents ripple outward: apps and tools built on OpenAI’s models start erroring together whenever the platform degrades.
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s conversational AI assistant with hundreds of millions of users. Under peak demand it degrades in recognizable ways: responses stall mid-sentence, conversations fail to load, or you’re asked to retry.
Microsoft’s cloud estate spans Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and Azure. Because one identity system (Entra ID) signs into all of them, authentication incidents can lock users out of email, chat, and files simultaneously.
Apple’s online services — iCloud, the App Store, iMessage, and Apple ID — are tracked individually on Apple’s official System Status grid, and they fail individually too: iMessage can be down while everything else is green.
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant. Like other high-demand AI services it can slow down or return errors during traffic surges, and because its API powers many third-party apps, a Claude outage often shows up as failures in tools built on top of it.
Google Gemini is Google's AI assistant, available on the web and across Google apps. Like other large AI services it can slow down or return errors during peak demand, and features can fail independently — chat may work while image generation or a specific model does not.
When big tech breaks, everything looks broken
The giants’ platforms underpin so many other products that their outages masquerade as unrelated failures: third-party apps with “Sign in with Google” stop authenticating, sites hosted on their clouds slow down, and email delays ripple everywhere. If several unrelated tools fail at once, check the platform level first — a single Google or Microsoft incident explains more than a dozen individual app outages ever could.
AI services fail differently
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini add a failure mode traditional sites don’t have: capacity. An AI service can be fully reachable — our check shows green — while still refusing new conversations or responding slowly because demand exceeds available compute. Errors like “at capacity” or truncated responses usually resolve within minutes to an hour. A reachability failure, by contrast, indicates a genuine outage rather than load shedding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tech platforms and AI services are covered?
We track Google, Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini with dedicated status pages. Each shows a live check from our servers plus the last 24 hours of scheduled monitoring and response times.
ChatGPT (or Claude, or Gemini) shows as up but rejects my prompts. Is it down?
Probably overloaded rather than down. AI services shed load under heavy demand: the site answers — so reachability checks pass — but new sessions get throttled. Wait a few minutes and retry, or switch to a lighter model tier if the app offers one. Persistent errors alongside a green check are worth reporting to the provider.
Gmail is slow but not down. Where is the problem?
Slowness with a healthy reachability check usually means either your connection or a partial, regional incident on Google’s side. Try the basic HTML view or the mobile app: if those are fast, your browser or its extensions are the bottleneck. Google’s own status dashboard, linked from our Gmail page, lists partial degradations that never show up as full outages.