Buffer experienced a minor incident on October 8, 2026 affecting Channel connections and Youtube, lasting 1d 3h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 08, 2026, 12:58 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently seeing issues connecting and refreshing YouTube channels on Buffer. While this appears to be due to instability with the social network, we are investigating to confirm the cause. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and will continue to share updates here as we have them. Affected components Youtube (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance)
- identified Oct 08, 2026, 06:38 PM UTC
Status: Identified After investigating, it appears that this issue is related to ongoing issues within the YouTube API. We're keeping an eye on things and will update this page if any new information becomes available. Affected components Youtube (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance)
- identified Oct 08, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC
Status: Identified We're continuing to keep an eye on this situation. The error rate is low, but we want to ensure YouTube connections are working as expected for all users before marking this issue as resolved. Affected components Youtube (Degraded performance) Channel connections (Degraded performance)
- resolved Oct 09, 2026, 04:04 PM UTC
Status: Resolved We have seen that the issues with YouTube connections have returned back to normal levels now, and all new YouTube connections should go through successfully once again, as well as channel reconnections, too. We're very sorry for the inconvenience this created and hope everything is running smoothly for you now. Affected components Youtube (Operational) Channel connections (Operational)