Outage report · Partial outage
Google Chat outage on Feb 23, 2026
Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations
What happened
Google Chat reported a partial outage starting Feb 23, 2026, 06:32 UTC, affecting Google Chat. It was marked resolved at Feb 23, 2026, 08:35 UTC.
- The incident lasted 2h 3m from first report to resolution.
- Google Chat had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 1 other vendor we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Google Chat
The issue with Google Chat has been resolved for all affected users as of Monday, 2026-02-23 00:35 PST. As per our preliminary analysis, the incident was triggered by a recent configuration update. Our engineering team performed a rollback to mitigate the impact and verified the stability. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Google Chat started after this incident, so this report is based on Google Chat's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Google Chat's overall reliability
Google Chat has a reliability score of 92.9/100, with 99.98% effective uptime and 1 incidents over the last 90 days.
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