# Grain: Recorder failing to join some Meet meetings

- Impact (vendor’s label): critical
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC · Resolved: 2024-01-19 17:41 UTC · Duration: 164 d
- Updates: 2 · Affected components: Grain Recorder
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/y8xj92h38f09](https://stspg.io/y8xj92h38f09)
- [Company: Grain](https://rewindex.com/company/grain.md)

## 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)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC: 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.
- **resolved** 2024-01-19 17:41 UTC: An update to Google Meet authenticated recorders has been deployed that works around Google's limitations. We believe this should resolve issues moving forward.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2023-08-08 06:51 UTC: [Critical incident: Recorder failing to join some Meet meetings](https://rewindex.com/change/icee0a35ece11a7.md)


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