YouTube Outage Check

Is YouTube Down Right Now?

🔴 YouTube is down. A major outage was confirmed.

YouTube is not reachable. The service may be down or experiencing a major outage.

Approximately 80% of users are affected.

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Downstream impact when YouTube is down
  • Video streaming and uploads
  • YouTube Live streams
  • YouTube Studio creator tools
  • YouTube Music

Component Breakdown

Specific service features status
ComponentStatus
API Portal Operational
Core Service Operational
OAuth Integrations Operational
Website Operational

⚠️ Active Outage Incidents

Active Event
YouTube Unreachable

YouTube is not reachable. The service may be down or experiencing a major outage.

Based on historical MTTR (66m avg), estimated resolution: ~5:12 AM (GMT+8) — approximately 60 min remaining.
Impact Level: critical Elapsed: 6m of ~66m avg

90-Day Uptime Performance

History & recovery averages
SLA Grade: F Based on 90-day verified uptime
90.000%
Uptime
66m
Mean Resolution Time (MTTR)
6.7
Avg Incidents / Month
Active now
Last Incident
90 Days AgoToday

Past Incidents & Outage Archives

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YouTube API Gateway Timeout and Increased Error Rates

Engineers investigated a spike in 504 Gateway Timeout errors affecting public API endpoints.

Duration: 1h 2m Affected: API Requests, API Portal

YouTube Database Failover and Connection Backlog

A hardware failure on the primary database cluster triggered an automatic failover to the replica.

Duration: 1h 13m Affected: Core Service, Website

YouTube Database Failover and Connection Backlog

A hardware failure on the primary database cluster triggered an automatic failover to the replica.

Duration: 1h 3m Affected: Core Service, Website

YouTube API Gateway Timeout and Increased Error Rates

Engineers investigated a spike in 504 Gateway Timeout errors affecting public API endpoints.

Duration: 1h 3m Affected: API Requests, API Portal

YouTube API Gateway Timeout and Increased Error Rates

Engineers investigated a spike in 504 Gateway Timeout errors affecting public API endpoints.

Duration: 59m Affected: API Requests, API Portal

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Troubleshooting Guide

  1. 1
    Hard Refresh
    Bypass cache (Ctrl+F5 or Cmd+Shift+R).
  2. 2
    Flush DNS
    Run ipconfig /flushdns.
  3. 3
    Check with alternative network
    Try loading the site on a mobile cellular network or over a VPN. If it loads, the issue lies in your local ISP provider network routing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, YouTube maintains an official status page. However, our real-time tracker aggregates reports faster.
Historical records indicate that the mean time to resolve (MTTR) is approximately 66 minutes.
Outages can happen due to configuration mistakes, database freezes, edge network issues, or infrastructure drops.
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Try bypass caching by executing hard refresh, flush local DNS, or use alternatives listed below.

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