# AI API outages on September 4, 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 4, 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 01:35 UTC, at least 14 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 01:35-01:50 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner us-central | >=14 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 08:35-08:55 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=19 min | 3 | unattributed |
| 09:35-09:50 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner us-central | >=14 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 10:10-10:10 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo us-central | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 10:55-10:55 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 11:15-11:15 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |
| 11:35-18:55 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east us-central | >=439 min | 87 | unattributed |
| 19:30-19:30 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | ap-tokyo us-central | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the friendli API down on September 4, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of friendli coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above friendli and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08:05-08:06 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | <5 min | 2 | unattributed |

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

## Was the iflytek API down on September 4, 2026?

Not attributably. 2 multi-region failure(s) of iflytek coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above iflytek and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12:05-12:25 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=20 min | 4 | unattributed |
| 13:46-14:05 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner | >=19 min | 3 | unattributed |

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

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-09-04 · CC BY 4.0