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Gmail, YouTube and other Google services back online after outage

This photo from Nov. 18, 2019, shows the logo of Google on a carpet in Paris. Google users were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or online documents when the internet giant’s services apparently suffered an outage on Monday. (Associated Press)
By Hannah Denham Washington Post

A host of Alphabet services, including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail, were briefly knocked offline Monday morning in a widespread outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms.

Google’s workplace status dashboard showed U.S. outages began at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time for all of its listed services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Sites, Google Groups, Google Hangouts, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Vault, Currents, Google Forms, Google Cloud Search, Google Keep, Google Tasks, Google Voice, Admin Console, Google Analytics, App Maker, Google Maps, Blogger, Google Sync for Mobile, and Classroom.

Less than an hour later, the dashboard issued a status message indicating all services were back online for most affected users.

“We will continue to work towards restoring service for the remaining affected users, but no further updates will be provided on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard,” the message reads. “Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.”

Google did not respond to a request for comment.

YouTube addressed the access issues in a tweet, saying “our team is aware and looking into it” but didn’t indicate the cause of the technical problems.

Users and outage trackers like DownDetector started reporting that they couldn’t access their email accounts, YouTube or stored files on Google’s platforms early Monday morning.