Outage recap · Google

Gemini outage — May 4, 2026

On May 4, 2026, Gemini had a reported incident on Google's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Investigating elevated error rates with Gemini conversations.

minor
Started
May 4, 12:40 PM EDT
Resolved
May 8, 2:53 PM EDT
Duration
98h 13m

Google's updates (10)

  1. service_information · May 5, 7:35 PM EDT

    Summary Investigating elevated error rates with Gemini conversations. Description Mitigation work is currently underway by our engineering team. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point. We will provide more information by Tuesday, 2026-05-05 20:30 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers are experiencing "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  2. service_information · May 5, 11:22 PM EDT

    Summary Investigating elevated error rates with Gemini conversations. Description Mitigation work is currently underway by our engineering team. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point. We will provide more information by Wednesday, 2026-05-06 09:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers are experiencing "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  3. service_information · May 6, 3:11 PM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations are experiencing elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has determined that further investigation is required to mitigate the issue. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point. We will provide more information by Thursday, 2026-05-07 17:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers are experiencing "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  4. service_information · May 7, 7:52 PM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations are experiencing elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has determined that further investigation is required to mitigate the issue. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point. We will provide more information by Thursday, 2026-05-07 20:30 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers are experiencing "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  5. service_information · May 7, 9:00 PM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations may have experienced elevated error rates. Description The issue with Gemini has been resolved for all affected users as of Thursday, 2026-05-07 17:00 PDT. The issue was triggered due to a combination of insufficient database resources, and application issues. The database capacity issues were resolved, and further code changes are being made to mitigate the application issues. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue. Symptoms Affected customers may have experienced the "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations.

  6. service_information · May 8, 1:16 AM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations are experiencing elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has determined that further investigation is required to mitigate the issue. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this point. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-05-08 01:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers may encounter "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  7. service_information · May 8, 3:29 AM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations may experience elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has isolated the underlying issue and is in the process of reverting the specific code deployments that triggered the impact. We are actively monitoring the progress of the rollback, alongside system health indicators, to confirm that the restoration is proceeding effectively. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-05-08 04:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers may encounter "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  8. service_information · May 8, 6:23 AM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations may experience elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has isolated the underlying issue and is in the process of reverting the specific code deployments that triggered the impact. We are actively monitoring the progress of the rollback, alongside system health indicators, to confirm that the restoration is proceeding effectively. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-05-08 09:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers may encounter "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  9. service_information · May 8, 11:53 AM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations may experience elevated error rates. Description Our engineering team has isolated the underlying issue and is in the process of reverting the specific code deployments that triggered the impact. We are actively monitoring the progress of the rollback, alongside system health indicators, to confirm that the restoration is proceeding effectively. We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-05-08 12:00 PDT. Symptoms Affected customers may encounter "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

  10. available · May 8, 2:58 PM EDT

    Summary Gemini conversations may have experienced elevated error rates. Description The issue with Gemini has been resolved for all affected users as of Friday, 2026-05-08 11:53 PDT. The issue was triggered due to a combination of insufficient database resources, and application bugs. The database capacity issues were resolved, and further code changes are being made to mitigate the application issue. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue. Symptoms Affected customers may have experienced "Something went wrong(13)" error message in their Gemini conversations. Workaround None at this time.

Updates are Google's own words from its status page (status: resolved); we never add an inferred cause. The vendor's incident page ↗

The AI cascade

Gemini depends on Google. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit Gemini alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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