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Lessons from the June 2025 Google Cloud Outage (And How Monitoring Could Have Saved You)

7/9/2025

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🚨 Lessons from the June 2025 Google Cloud Outage (And How Monitoring Could Have Saved You)

On June 12, 2025, a faulty quota configuration in Google Cloud’s API management system triggered widespread 503 errors across Google Cloud, Workspace, and many third-party apps like Spotify, Discord, and Cloudflare  0 1.

Duration: ~3 hours (10:49 AM–1:49 PM Pacific)

Global impact: DNS failures, deployment blocks, broken identity services — chaos.


🧠 What Went Wrong

Google published that an invalid automated quota update was pushed globally, overloading the policy system since quota checks are regional.

They ultimately bypassed the faulty policy, but recovery took 2‑3 hours, with regions like us‑central1 taking longest  *2.


🚫 Who Got Hit

  • Nearly 70+ Google services disrupted (e.g. Gmail, Drive, Cloud Console)  *3

  • External platforms like Spotify, Discord, OpenAI went dark  *4

  • Dev teams couldn’t deploy, support tools failed, authentication systems broke — widespread infra paralysis.


🕵️ Why Monitoring Doesn’t Guarantee Availability, But Helps Fast Recovery

  • Internal checks on a single region don’t reveal external user impact

  • An external monitoring tool could have alerted you in minutes — not hours

  • You wouldn’t need to build your own status page around broken tools

  • Multi-location checks ensure visibility even if your provider or region is down


🛠️ How Garmingo Status Protects You

With Garmingo Status:

  • 🌍 Global checks from multiple regions

  • 📉 Track uptime & SLA performance

  • 📣 Get instant alerts via Slack, Email, Telegram, Discord…

  • 👁️‍🗨️ Publish public/private status pages

  • 📄 Generate incident reports & PDF uptime history

  • 🆓 Lifetime access under $50 (AppSumo Deal) or free forever option

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💡 Key Takeaways

In a world where cloud providers fail, don’t be the last to know.

👉 Ready for uptime you control?

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TL;DR

A ~3‑hour Google Cloud outage wreaked havoc on global services. With external monitoring, five-minute alerts, SLA tracking, and status page capabilities, Garmingo Status could help you be the first to know — and keep your users informed.

Lifetime access = 💸 under $50 one-time.

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