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Title:

Partial outage Lasted 4h 45m · started · Google Workspace's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Down Index
41of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Google Workspace Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 4h 45m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-11-12 17:00 UTC and 2025-11-12 21:45 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Google Workspace 9

  1. service_information

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 11:10 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. **Workaround:** None at this time.

    provider

  2. service_information

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 11:45 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. **Workaround:** None at this time.

    provider

  3. service_information

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 12:10 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. **Workaround:** None at this time.

    provider

  4. service_disruption

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 12:40 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround:** None at this time.

    provider

  5. service_disruption

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Forms beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 13:15 PST with current details. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround:** None at this time.

    provider

  6. service_disruption

    **Title:** We are investigating access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description:** We are experiencing an issue with Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Slides beginning at Wednesday, 2025-11-12 09:00 PST. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 14:15 PST with current details. **Symptoms:** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround:** Impacted customers may try and reboot their routers as a potential workaround. Customers may also try to access via a mobile device..

    provider

  7. service_disruption

    **Title** We are mitigating the access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description** Our engineering team has identified the root cause. We are seeing a decrease in user impact and are currently working to resolve the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 15:30 PST with current details. **Customer Symptoms** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround** Affected customers may try accessing via a mobile device.

    provider

  8. service_disruption

    **Title** We are mitigating the access issues with multiple workspace products. **Description** Our engineering team has identified the root cause. We are continuing to see a decrease in user impact and are currently working to resolve the issue. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2025-11-12 16:30 PST with current details. **Customer Symptoms** Some customers are encountering SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround** Affected customers may try accessing via a mobile device.

    provider

  9. resolved

    **Title** Access issues with Workspace products are now mitigated. **Description** The issue with Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms has been resolved for all affected users as of Wednesday, 2025-11-12 13:45 PST. The root cause was associated with a third party and external to Google infrastructure. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue. **Customer Symptoms** A small number of customers may have encountered SSL errors such as "This site can't provide a secure connection / ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR" when accessing Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms. **Workaround** Not applicable.

    provider

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Questions about DWN-eb4c93df7b

Is Google Workspace still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-11-12 21:45 UTC. For Google Workspace's live state, see https://down.guide/google-workspace.

How long did it last?

4h 45m, from 2025-11-12 17:00 UTC to 2025-11-12 21:45 UTC, by the times Google Workspace posted.

What was affected?

Google Workspace named Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides.

What caused it?

Google Workspace hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Google Workspace's official status page, https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.