There was a nearly two-hour crash in the services of YouTube, now the service has become operational

At about 4 am Moscow time, users of YouTube (owned by Google) were faced with a service failure (500 Internal Server Error).

At 6 am, MSK, the service was restored.



The problems affected users in different countries of the world, including in Russia.
The most number of complaints fell on the USA, Australia, Japan, European countries
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When trying to access the main page of the service, users saw a blank page without an error message.

All video content uploaded to the service stopped working, including via links to third-party resources.

Users mostly observed this error:



Failure statistics:





Service comments on the problem:



Thank you for your reports of issues with YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music. We are working on a solution to this issue and will notify you about it after correction. Sorry for any inconvenience.

It took less than two hours to solve the main problem:



We returned! Thank you for your patience. If you continue to experience problems, let us know.

It is interesting that there was a problem, because it quickly eliminated it.