# AI API outages on September 8, 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 8, 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 11:57 UTC, at least 2 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 11:57-12:00 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | eu-hetzner sa-east | >=2 min | 2 | provider_outage |
| 22:40-22:40 | requests to gemini-flash-lite-latest | sa-east us-central | <5 min | 2 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the friendli API down on September 8, 2026?

Yes, measured. 1 outage(s) attributed to friendli: host probes failed from up to 3 of 4 regions at once while no other provider was failing, first at 08:35 UTC, at least 8 minutes observed in total.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 08:35-08:42 | host probes | ap-tokyo eu-hetzner sa-east | >=8 min | 3 | provider_outage |

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

## Was the yi-01ai API down on September 8, 2026?

Not attributably. 1 multi-region failure(s) of yi-01ai coincided with failures of other providers, so the cause sat above yi-01ai and is not blamed on it.

| UTC | What failed | Regions | Duration (lower bound) | Failed probes | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 09:15-09:20 | host probes | ap-tokyo sa-east | >=5 min | 2 | unattributed |

Live status now: https://llmlatency.dev/provider/yi-01ai

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/incidents/2026-09-08 · CC BY 4.0