- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Down Index
- 29of 100
What to do
Check whether your product depends on GitBook. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 2h 23m it lasted.
Anything that failed between 2026-05-08 15:52 UTC and 2026-05-08 18:15 UTC may need a replay.Subscribe to GitBook's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
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Updates from GitBook 3
- 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.
provider
- monitoring
A fix has been deployed, we are monitoring the performance.
provider
- resolved
The fix has improved the performance back to their normal levels.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-0362a38bf6
Is GitBook still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-08 18:15 UTC. For GitBook's live state, see https://down.guide/gitbook.
How long did it last?
2h 23m, from 2026-05-08 15:52 UTC to 2026-05-08 18:15 UTC, by the times GitBook posted.
What caused it?
GitBook hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
GitBook's official status page, https://www.gitbookstatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.