# Grain: Critical incident: Recorder failing to join some Meet meetings

**Summary:** Grain Recorder failed to join some Meet meetings in a critical incident starting 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC and resolved 2024-01-19 17:41 UTC, lasting 164 days 10 h. Grain suspected a new Google anti-spam error state and deployed an update to Google Meet authenticated recorders to work around Google's limitations. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/y8xj92h38f09](https://stspg.io/y8xj92h38f09)
- [Company: Grain](https://rewindex.com/company/grain.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:20/wnwvc8vypvs5@5c52266f8395
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Recorder failing to join some Meet meetings
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ critical
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2024-01-19 17:41 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Grain Recorder
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC

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+ Monitoring has shown that the Grain Recorder is failing to join a subset of Meet meetings. Initial investigations indicate that the recorder may be triggering a new Google anti-spam error state. We have taken steps to mitigate the issue and are investigating further solutions.
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**8. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2024-01-19 17:41 UTC

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+ An update to Google Meet authenticated recorders has been deployed that works around Google's limitations. We believe this should resolve issues moving forward.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC | Critical incident: Recorder failing to join some Meet meetings (this change) | outage |

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