Is YouTube down?
Youtube.com is currently up
Our monitoring probes can reach youtube.com and complete a full check without errors. The latest automated check was run May 24, 2026, 19:27 GMT+0 from North America and didn't detect any unusual response times or error codes.
Current status
Up
Currently up for 1y 3mo 8d
Last check
Checked every 10 minutes
Last 24 hours
100%
0 incidents, 0m down
Response time
N/A
Average
N/A
Minimum
N/A
Maximum
The response-time chart above shows YouTube's status over time, based on our automated checks. Each point on the chart represents the result of a check run every every 10 minutes.
Last 7 days
100%
0 incidents, 0m down
Last 30 days
100%
0 incidents, 0m down
Last 365 days
100%
0 incidents, 0m down
Latest incidents
No incidents recorded
How our status checker works?
We continuously monitor YouTube from our own infrastructure to give you an objective view of its status. Every every 10 minutes, we send a request to youtube.com from our primary location in the US and verify that the site responds correctly and within a normal time frame.
If the first check fails, we immediately repeat it from a second location to avoid false positives. When that second attempt also fails, we trigger a third confirmation check from a random global location. Only if all three checks confirm a problem, we mark YouTube as having an issue or a major outage.
Frequently asked questions
No, YouTube is working normally. UptimeRobot monitors youtube.com around the clock from multiple global locations, and our latest checks show no confirmed issues.
You can see the current status and recent incident history at the top of this page. If you're still having trouble reaching youtube.com, the issue may be local to your connection, DNS, VPN, browser, or device.
UptimeRobot shows YouTube as operational right now, which means youtube.com is responding normally from our global monitoring locations.
If you're still having trouble accessing it, the issue may be local to your connection. Try switching browsers, devices, or networks, and check your DNS or VPN settings.
Try opening youtube.com from another browser, device, or network (e.g., mobile hotspot). You can also disable your VPN, clear DNS cache, restart your router, or check whether your internet provider is having issues. If the site works elsewhere, the problem is likely local rather than a confirmed YouTube outage.
We monitor youtube.com from our own infrastructure. When a check fails, we repeat the test from two other randomly chosen global locations to eliminate false positives. If these checks fail too, we mark YouTube as down.
A YouTube outage means our checks detected that youtube.com was not responding correctly after multiple checks from different global locations. This doesn't always mean every user is affected. Some outages are regional, some affect only certain features, and some appear as slow loading instead of a full failure.
Not exactly. UptimeRobot monitors youtube.com from the outside, so we can detect when something is wrong and show high-level symptoms such as connection timeouts, HTTP errors, or failed responses from specific regions.
However, we don't have visibility into internal systems, so we can't identify the exact root cause (like a failed deployment, database issue, or infrastructure problem).
What we can show you:
- When the issue started and when it was resolved
- How long the outage lasted
- Which regions were affected
- The type of error observed (for example, timeouts or HTTP status codes like 500 or 404)
For detailed root cause information and official updates, we recommend checking YouTube's official status page.
Yes, UptimeRobot lets you set up your own monitors for youtube.com so you get alerted the moment something goes wrong, and before your users notice. Our free plan includes 50 monitors with 5-minute check intervals. You'll also get details that this public status page doesn't show, such as response headers, response body, region-level results, and a full activity log.
Create a free UptimeRobot account and set up a monitor for youtube.com. You'll receive alerts via email, SMS, Slack, webhooks, and other integrations as soon as we detect an issue, and again when it's resolved. Because we monitor independently from YouTube's own infrastructure, you may be notified even before their official status page acknowledges the issue.
Alternatively, you can check whether YouTube offers notifications on its official status page.
