# Degraded database performance

- Provider: [GitBook](https://down.guide/providers/gitbook)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 2h 23m
- started 2026-05-08 15:52 UTC
- id: DWN-0362a38bf6
- Official page: https://www.gitbookstatus.com/incidents/01KR44N3VAQBMK8S2XFSM332Q1

## Updates from GitBook
### 2026-05-08 15:52 UTC: investigating
We are seeing a decrease in our database performance causing various actions in the app to hang. Our engineering team is investigating the root cause.

### 2026-05-08 16:39 UTC: monitoring
A fix has been deployed, we are monitoring the performance.

### 2026-05-08 18:15 UTC: resolved
The fix has improved the performance back to their normal levels.

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