It has false positives and noise for sure, but it's also very sensitive and shows issues very quickly.
I wouldn't trust it as a single source, but in a case like this where our internal monitoring shows a spike of issues with the Google APIs and we can see a huge spike in reported issues for Google on Downdetector starting at the same time, it's useful to confirm that the issues have an external source.
I wouldn't trust it as a single source, but in a case like this where our internal monitoring shows a spike of issues with the Google APIs and we can see a huge spike in reported issues for Google on Downdetector starting at the same time, it's useful to confirm that the issues have an external source.