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YouTube and Google Service Disruption Analysis: December 19, 2025

By Internet Research Team
| | 1 min read

Summary

On December 19, between approximately 12:00 and 13:35 UTC, ThousandEyes observed service disruptions affecting YouTube and google.com. See how the incident unfolded in this analysis—more updates will be added as we have them.


Cisco ThousandEyes actively monitors the reachability and performance of thousands of services and networks across the global Internet, which we use to analyze outages and other incidents. The following analysis is based on our extensive monitoring, as well as ThousandEyes’ global outage detection service, Internet Insights. 


[December 19, 2025, 4:30 P(PST)]

On December 19, between approximately 12:00 and 13:35 UTC, ThousandEyes observed service disruptions affecting YouTube and google.com. During the incident, these services were intermittently timing out or responding with error messages, indicating service-level issues rather than connectivity issues reaching Google’s web servers. The incident appeared to impact users across all regions. 

Explore the disruption within the ThousandEyes platform (no login required). 

ThousandEyes screenshot showing the YouTube service disruption on December 19, 2025

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