Bugsnag: Major outage across all Bugsnag services
Google Cloud outage, Nov 16, 2021 · 24 vendors, 25 incidents
Bugsnag’s incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +13 min vs the first vendor naming Google Cloud)
“…d so some events may still be visible during that period. The incident was caused by this Google Cloud Networking issue: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5REh…”
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Mermaid source
flowchart LR
root["Google Cloud<br/>own incident not archived"]:::inferred
h1["Within an hour<br/>6 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Segment, Bugsnag, Twingate, Sigma Computing +2"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Smartsheet, Grafana Cloud"]:::blames
root --> h4
me["Bugsnag (this incident)<br/>posted +13 min"]:::me
h1 --- meFull event: timeline, evidence and all vendors →
Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.
Timeline of updates
- resolved
This incident has been resolved. The impact of the incident was that some event and session traffic will have been lost between 17:35 UTC and 17:53 UTC on Nov 16th 2021. In some cases clients will have retried so some events may still be visible during that period. The incident was caused by this Google Cloud Networking issue: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/6PM5mNd43NbMqjCZ5REh
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Archive proof
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This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on bugsnag.status.smartbear.com (opens in new tab).