Is Gemini down right now?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

A response that begins and then stops usually indicates pressure in the model-serving layer rather than an unreachable service: the request was accepted and generation started, then failed or was cut short. That is a real fault, but a narrow one, and retrying after a short pause frequently succeeds because it lands on different capacity. Repeated truncation across many attempts suggests a wider incident. The reachability check on this page answers the separate question of whether gemini.google.com is responding at all, which distinguishes a degraded model backend from a connection or DNS problem on your side.

Feature availability differs by account far more than for most services. Gemini's capabilities vary by region, by account type - personal versus Workspace - and by whether an organisation's administrator has enabled it, and some features roll out gradually rather than to everyone at once. So two people on the same network can legitimately see different behaviour with nothing broken at all. A genuine outage does not discriminate this way: it fails for everyone regardless of account, which is what makes the account-by-account pattern a strong signal that you are looking at availability rules rather than an incident.