Is Google Play down?
Google Play is up
Right now
No. Google Play Android Publisher API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status.
No official machine-readable status
For agents
proceed
Proceed.
GET upbutler.com/status/google-play/status.agent.json
MCP: upstream_status {"service":"google-play"}
Play Console, app publishing and Play Billing. Google publishes no machine-readable status for Play.
What Google Play says
status.play.google.com has no public JSON API or feed we may read; only the independent probe is shown.
Their site: status.play.google.comWhat UpButler measured
Android Publisher API is answeringHTTP 401 · 147 ms
One request without credentials to androidpublisher.googleapis.com every two minutes, from eu-central (one location, not a global view). An answer (the expected "not authenticated") shows the edge, TLS and routing work. It does not prove that authenticated calls succeed.
Checked · up since 2026-10-10 06:09 UTC
Google Play incidents, last 90 days
Without a machine-readable source there is no incident history to show. Google Play keeps its own at status.play.google.com.
Get alerted when Google Play goes down
No account. One email when our probe cannot reach Google Play for several minutes, one when it can again. You confirm the address first, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
On UpButler? Add Google Play as a dependency to route it to Slack, Teams or a webhook.
Status badge
Show Google Play's current status in a README or an internal wiki. It updates by itself.
[](https://upbutler.com/status/google-play)Tell your outage from Google Play's
Declare that your project depends on Google Play. When one of your monitors fails while Google Play has an incident that began around the same time, UpButler tags your incident "likely upstream" with their incident linked, says so in the alert and the AI report, and tells your on-call agent not to change code.
npx upbutler init finds the dependency from your env var names and packages. The catalog, dependencies and upstream-aware incidents are on every plan, including Free.
# upbutler.yaml
dependencies:
- google-playcurl -s https://upbutler.com/status/google-play/status.agent.json{
"schema": "upbutler.upstream-status/v1",
"service": "google-play",
"verdict": "proceed",
"status": "operational",
"reason": "Google Play Android Publisher API answers UpButler's independent probe; no machine-readable official status",
"retryAfterSec": null,
"incident": null,
"probe": {
"state": "up",
"statusCode": 401
}
}Questions
- Is Google Play down right now?
- No. As of 2026-10-10 07:17 UTC, Google Play is up. This page reads the status again every 2 minutes.
- Where does this status come from?
- status.play.google.com has no public JSON API or feed we may read; only the independent probe is shown.
- What does UpButler's own Google Play check prove?
- Every two minutes UpButler sends one request without credentials to the Google Play Android Publisher API (androidpublisher.googleapis.com) from eu-central. Any answer from the edge, usually HTTP 401, shows that DNS, TLS and routing work from there. It does not prove that authenticated requests succeed, and it is one location, not a global view. It is most useful when it fails before their status page changes; the page then says so.
- How can my agent or app check Google Play status?
- Fetch https://upbutler.com/status/google-play/status.agent.json: a small JSON document with a verdict (proceed, retry, fallback or pause) and retryAfterSec. No key is needed. The same answer is an MCP tool, upstream_status {"service":"google-play"}, on https://upbutler.com/mcp/public.
- How do I know whether an outage is mine or Google Play's?
- Add "google-play" to the dependencies of your UpButler workspace. When one of your monitors fails while Google Play has an incident that began around the same time, your incident is tagged "likely upstream" with their incident linked, and your on-call agent is told not to change code.
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UpButler is not affiliated with Google Play. Status and incident text belong to Google Play and are read from their public status source; the probe result is UpButler's own measurement.