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LiveChat Outage History

Every past LiveChat outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 161 LiveChat outages since June 2016. The 20 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 13, 2026

May 2026: Issues with adding new Knowledge Sources

Detected May 13, 2026 4:33 AM PDT · Resolved May 13, 2026 5:06 AM PDT · Duration 33 minutes

LiveChat experienced a 33-minute service disruption where some customers were unable to add new Knowledge Sources to their accounts. The engineering team investigated the root cause and implemented a fix that restored the ability to add Knowledge Sources. The service was fully restored and is being monitored to ensure stability.

Major February 24, 2026

February 2026: LiveChat - outage

Detected Feb 24, 2026 8:33 PM PST · Resolved Feb 26, 2026 2:23 AM PST · Duration 1 day

LiveChat experienced a major outage lasting 29.8 hours that affected some customers' ability to access the service, start chats, and send messages, with users experiencing delays and message delivery failures. The incident was caused by infrastructure issues with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), requiring coordination between LiveChat and Google's engineering teams throughout the resolution process. A fix was implemented and deployed, with the service gradually returning to normal operation while being monitored for stability.