New Google Search Status Dashboard Tells Us When Crawling, Indexing Or Serving Goes Down
I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search – its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched its Google Search Status Dashboard report.
Today, Google launched the Google Search Status Dashboard report at status.search.google.com. This report will give you official confirmation from Google when there is an issue or outage with crawling, indexing or serving with the Google Search service.
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Google said “As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most current status of systems which impact Search—crawling, indexing, and serving. While system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be transparent when they do happen. In the past, we’ve worked with our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to externalize these disruptions on our Google Search Central Twitter account. Today, we’re introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard to communicate the status of Search going forward.”