Is YouTube down?
Up right now — last check 2 min ago, responded in 184 ms.
If it won't open for you — the cause is local: connection, DNS or VPN.
No user reports in the last hour
User reports, separate from our automated monitoring above.
Response time and failed checks · last 30 days
uptime 30d 100.00% 90d 100.00% incidents 90d 0 response 212 ms
Outage & incident history
No incidents recorded by our monitoring — YouTube has been stable.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is YouTube down for everyone or just me?
Check the status at the top of this page: we independently probe YouTube every few minutes from Moscow. “Down” means the problem is on the service side and affects everyone. “Up” means the cause is local — restart your router, switch DNS (e.g. 1.1.1.1), disable VPN and browser extensions.
Why is YouTube down today?
Typical causes: server overload, a bad deploy, DNS or SSL certificate issues, a hosting outage, sometimes DDoS. We record the downtime itself (5xx, timeouts, DNS and TLS errors) and its duration; the official root cause is published by the service.
How often does YouTube have outages?
Over the last 90 days our monitoring recorded 0 incident(s), with 100.00% uptime for the period. The full incident list with dates and durations is below on this page.
Why won't YouTube play videos or keeps buffering?
If the status above says Down, it's on the service side. If Up but videos buffer: test your connection speed (HD streaming needs 5+ Mbps), lower the playback quality, restart the app or try another browser.
What if YouTube won't open but there is no outage?
Hard-reload the page (Ctrl+Shift+R), try another browser or mobile data, switch your DNS server, disable VPN. You can inspect the domain with Enterno.io tools: HTTP headers, SSL certificate, DNS records and ping.
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