Is YouTube down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached youtube.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 14d 9h.
Checking youtube.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About YouTube outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
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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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests youtube.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than 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.
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.
No - as of the most recent check, youtube.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 9h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, youtube.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 9h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
No - as of the most recent check, youtube.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 9h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
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.
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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