Sometimes You Can Blame Google

I was home for lunch yesterday when Jennifer asked me what she was doing wrong because Google Drive was not allowing her to successful create a new Sheet. I sat down to take a look while she clicked through the normal process and sure enough, failure. The only indication was :

Google App that has lost Internet connectivity

Something was causing the connection to drop! We opened up another tab and surfed to a few websites to confirm that the Internet connection was indeed alive and well. The next thing we did gets to the heart of this post and illustrates something we all should be aware of, the Google Apps Status Dashboard. 

The Google Apps Status dashboard solved the mystery as there was indeed an orange dot representing a service disruption at that specific day / time. 

The colored dots are clickable and give more details as to the nature of the problem and status of the solution. 

So the next time you think you might be crazy due to the way a Google service is behavior, or misbehaving as the case may be swing by the Apps Status Dashboard. It may just save a lot of time and frustration! 

Stay Positive!