Is Gemini Down?

Live Checks

If Gemini Is Down, Do This Right Now

1. Confirm whether failures are timeout-heavy, 429-heavy, or broad provider failures.
2. Reduce retry burst and add jitter immediately so recovery is not slowed by your own traffic.
3. Protect critical user paths with fallback routing or graceful degradation for nonessential features.
4. Check project quotas, credentials, and request shape before assuming a global Gemini incident.
5. Roll back mitigation only after multiple healthy intervals, not one successful check.

Common Symptoms and Meanings

Recent Non-Operational Windows

What This Means for Production Teams

Gemini can appear partially healthy while still creating user pain, especially when latency rises before hard failures do. Treat degraded signals as a real production event if the workload is user-facing and latency-sensitive. For background or batch workloads, a measured slowdown is often safer than an immediate failover.

The goal is not to react faster than everyone else. The goal is to react correctly. Use clear thresholds for fallback, cap the amount of traffic moved at once, and avoid retry storms that turn a small provider wobble into your own incident.