Cloud Tasks API down today between 19:20 and 20:20 EST

[Patrice Bertrand]

We have noticed that all calls to the Cloud Tasks API from our GAE projects failed with a "503: Service Unavailable" this day March 17th 2021, from 19:20 to 20:20 EST.   This happened in more than one project, without any change whatsoever on our side.   This error in all Cloud Tasks calls caused our application itself to be down, since many feature rely on being able to post a task to a queue.

I am surprised that the "Cloud Status Dashboard" has no mention of this incident, although it was pretty severe.   How reliable is the Cloud Status Dashboard" ?    Is it possible that we would be the only client experiencing this ?

[wokmou]

Hello,

We will need more information with the use of our internal tools to investigate this more thoroughly.  For that I will best advise you to file a case with support[1].

This short failure may be caused by intermittent issues with Cloud Networking [2]. You can also use the Cloud Status dashboard [3] in order to track global issues on GCP. 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/support/

[2] https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/21006

[3] https://status.cloud.google.com/