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Google Workspace outage, 23 February 2026
**Summary**
Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations
**Description**
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will...
Started 23 Feb 2026, 06:32 UTC
Resolved 23 Feb 2026, 08:35 UTC (after 2 h 3 min)
Impact Minor
Affected Google Chat
Is this still happening?
No.
Google Workspace marked this incident resolved on 23 Feb 2026, 08:35 UTC, 2 h 3 min after it began.
Right now: Google Workspace reports all systems operational. (as of 5 Nov, 00:21 UTC) Live Google Workspace status
Last update from Google Workspace
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.
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