August 28, 2026 · started 19:27 UTC

Google Workspace outage.

Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive) reported degraded for 1h 30m, then recovered. The provider titled it: “**Summary:** Google Chat users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view. **Description:** We are experiencing an intermittent issue with Google Chat Friday, 2026-08-28 10:25 PDT. Our engineering team has investigated the issue and are currently working on mitigating the issue. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-08-28 14:15 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Customer Symptoms:** Users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view **Workaround:** Users can refresh to see new messages”.

1h 30mduration

Degradedworst reported level

19:27 UTCAugust 28, 2026

Timeline

19:27 UTC — operational → degraded **Summary:** Google Chat users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view. **Description:** We are experiencing an intermittent issue with Google Chat Friday, 2026-08-28 10:25 PDT. Our engineering team has investigated the issue and are currently working on mitigating the issue. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-08-28 14:15 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Customer Symptoms:** Users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view **Workaround:** Users can refresh to see new messages
20:57 UTC — back to operational All services operating normally

As published on Google Workspace's official status page, observed by our poller. Times are UTC. See current Google Workspace status, its RSS feed, or all recorded outages.