Is Google Down Right Now?

The instant check tool above tests google.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Google being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

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.

Not necessarily. Google operates many distinct products (Search, Gmail, Drive, Google Cloud, and more) on infrastructure that's shared at a deep level but engineered with substantial independence at the product level, so it's common for one specific product to have an incident while the others remain fully operational. Google publishes per-product status on its own status dashboard for this reason. If something feels broken, checking the specific product/domain you're using is more informative than assuming "all of Google" is affected.

Many third-party apps and websites use Google's identity infrastructure for authentication ("Sign in with Google"), so when Google's identity/authentication layer has an incident, sign-in can fail across a large number of otherwise-unrelated apps simultaneously, even though those apps' own servers are completely healthy. This is a common source of confusion during a Google incident: the visible symptom ("I can't log into this random app") doesn't obviously point back to Google as the root cause unless you already know the app relies on Google sign-in.