# AI API outages on August 23, 2026 (UTC)

Measured every 5 minutes from 4 regions. An outage is attributed to a provider only when it failed from 2+ regions at once and no other provider failed in the same minutes.

## Was the Gemini API (Google) down on August 23, 2026?

Yes, measured. 2 outage(s) attributed to Google: requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest failed from up to 2 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 13:35 UTC, at least 2 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 13:35-13:35 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 20:38-20:40 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner us-central | >=2 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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