Stack Health Score
Score = 30-day uptime − penaltiesLatency >500ms: −2 | >1000ms: −5
Outages this month: −2 each
Degradations this month: −1 each
Uptime · Latency · Incidents
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100.00%
UptimePercentage of time the API was available.
Only DOWN status impacts this metric.
26ms
Avg Latency
1,000+
APIs monitored
0
Outages
1
Degradations
This Month
About Google's Google Places API
Google's Google Places API searches places and returns detailed venue data. Google is a US-based technology company owned by Alphabet. The Google Places API is used by developers worldwide for places search, venue data, autocomplete, location-based features.
Probecast monitors the Google Places API from 4 global regions (US West, US East, Europe, Asia Pacific) every 300 minutes, tracking uptime, latency and regional availability. Our real-time monitoring helps developers and teams understand the current health of Google's Google Places API and get alerted the moment service degrades.
Why monitor Google Places API?
If your product depends on Google Places API for critical features, an outage on Google's side is an outage on your product. Probecast detects Google Places API incidents as they start, giving you time to communicate with customers, fall back to alternative services or pause background jobs gracefully.
Current status
As of the latest check, Google Places API is operational. The 30-day uptime is 100.00%, with 1 incident recorded this month. Average response latency across all regions is 26ms.
●Uptime History
Regional Status
US West
49ms
latency
US East
27ms
latency
Europe
14ms
latency
Asia Pacific
14ms
latency
Latency (24h)
Google Places API is one of 1,000+ services Probecast watches for you
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Checked from 4 regions
US West & East, Europe and Asia — a regional outage never hides.
Alerted the moment it degrades
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Frequently Asked Questions
Recent Incidents
No incidents recorded
This API has been stable
API Information
Monitored Endpoint
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=0,0&radius=1&key=invalid