# AI API outages on September 2, 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 September 2, 2026?

Yes, measured. 3 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 05:55 UTC, at least 16 minutes observed in total. At least once Google's own host answered with an HTTP 5xx.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05:55-05:58 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner us-central | >=3 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 08:03-08:04 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east | >=1 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 13:54-14:18 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=24 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 15:33-15:45 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=12 min | 2 | provider_outage |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/google

## Was the Claude API (Anthropic) down on September 2, 2026?

Not by our measurements. No failure of Anthropic was seen from two or more regions at once. Anthropic's own status page opened 1 entry that day (self-reported, listed below).
- self-reported 21:17 UTC: Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5 (major)

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/anthropic

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-09-02 · CC BY 4.0