Gmail, YouTube and other Google services back online after widespread outage

A host of Alphabet services, including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail, were briefly knocked offline Monday 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.