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App and Public content failures due to Cloudflare outage

Major outage Lasted 1h · started · GitBook's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Down Index
39of 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 1h it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-12-05 09:12 UTC and 2025-12-05 10:12 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 3

  1. identified

    We are aware of issues loading public content and the GitBook app. The issue is related to a Cloudflare outage. More information on the incident can be found [here](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q).

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  2. monitoring

    Cloudflare has implemented a [fix for the issue](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q). Public content and the GitBook app are back.

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  3. resolved

    [Cloudflare have resolved](https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q) the incident and we have seen full recovery of public content and the app.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-a2b2966961

Is GitBook still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-12-05 10:12 UTC. For GitBook's live state, see https://down.guide/gitbook.

How long did it last?

1h, from 2025-12-05 09:12 UTC to 2025-12-05 10:12 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.