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App and published docs unavailable

Major outage Lasted 5m · started · GitBook's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Down Index
34of 100

What to do

  • Check whether your product depends on GitBook. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 5m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-05 18:56 UTC and 2026-09-05 19:00 UTC may need a replay.
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    https://down.guide/feed?provider=gitbook works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from GitBook 2

  1. monitoring

    Our database provider is experiencing a partial outage, affecting availability of the GitBook application and published documentation sites. It appears to be mitigated and the GitBook app and published docs are available again. We are continuing to monitor for stability and will confirm resolution once we're confident the issue is fully cleared.

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  2. resolved

    The incident is now fully resolved, all services are now up and stable.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-9101fb5179

Is GitBook still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-05 19:00 UTC. For GitBook's live state, see https://down.guide/gitbook.

How long did it last?

5m, from 2026-09-05 18:56 UTC to 2026-09-05 19:00 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.