video platform status

Is YouTube Down Right Now?

youtube.com is currently Up

HostTracker's monitoring network reached youtube.com and completed a full check without errors. Currently up for 11d 9h.

Last checked just now from 300+ worldwide locations

Live monitoring

Live YouTube Status

Operational

Current status

Operational

Currently up for 11d 9h

Last check

just now

Checked every 10 minutes

Last 24 hours

100.00%

0 incidents, 0m down

7-day uptime

100.00%

30-day uptime

100.00%

Response Time

Last 30 days

688 ms avg

688 ms

Average

213 ms

Minimum

8382 ms

Maximum

Monitored checks

HTTP

Operational

Ping

Operational

Page Speed

Down

Uptime History

Daily uptime

90 days ago Operational Degraded Down No data Today

No incidents recorded in the last 90 days.

Why it happens

About YouTube Outages

YouTube serves more than two billion users and effectively functions as the internet's video layer — when it breaks, it isn't just youtube.com that suffers, but the embedded players on countless other sites, the live streams broadcasters depend on, and the upload pipeline that creators' livelihoods run on. Full global YouTube outages are rare enough to make headlines; far more common are partial failures where the site loads but every video throws "An error occurred," uploads stall in processing, or one country's traffic degrades because of an edge-network issue. Because YouTube rides Google's global infrastructure, its incidents sometimes coincide with wider Google service problems. Checking youtube.com's reachability from multiple independent locations quickly separates a genuine platform incident from a browser extension, DNS, or ISP problem on your end.

Common Causes of YouTube Downtime

Playback-layer incidents where the site and app load but every video fails with "An error occurred, please try again later"

Upload and processing pipeline problems that stall new videos and disrupt live streams while normal playback continues

Regional edge/CDN or ISP routing issues that degrade YouTube in specific countries while the rest of the world streams normally

Wider Google infrastructure incidents that hit YouTube together with other Google services sharing the same accounts and network

Not sure whether it's YouTube or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.

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Frequently asked questions.

How can I check right now if YouTube is down or if it's just me?

The instant check tool above tests youtube.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than YouTube being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.

Can I get alerted automatically the next time YouTube goes down?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL — including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website — as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

YouTube loads but videos won't play — is YouTube down?

Quite possibly, and this is the most common shape of a real YouTube incident: the lightweight page shell is served separately from the video-delivery infrastructure, so the site can render perfectly while playback fails everywhere. Before concluding that, rule out the classic local culprits — an ad blocker or privacy extension interfering with the player (try an incognito window with extensions off) and a stale browser cache. If videos fail in a clean browser session and in your phone's app at the same time, the problem is almost certainly on YouTube's side.

Does a YouTube outage affect videos embedded on other websites?

Yes. Embedded players load the same player code and stream from the same delivery network as youtube.com itself, so a playback-layer incident breaks embeds across the web at the same time — which is why a YouTube outage often looks like "video is broken everywhere" rather than one site failing. The reverse is useful for diagnosis too: if embeds on other sites play fine while youtube.com won't load for you, your route to the main site (DNS, extensions, or network path) is the more likely problem than the platform itself.

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