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Partial outage Lasted 1h · started · Help Scout's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Web App, Docs Sites, Beacon
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use Help Scout Web App, Docs Sites, Beacon. 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 2025-12-11 12:06 UTC and 2025-12-11 13:06 UTC may need a replay.
  • Subscribe to Help Scout's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

    https://down.guide/feed?provider=help-scout works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Help Scout 3

  1. investigating

    We're currently investigating reports of slow page loads and timeouts when trying to access the web app. We’ll share an update as soon as we have more information.

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  2. identified

    The team has identified the root cause, and we're working on a fix, but it may take a bit longer before we can bring all services back online. We'll post an update when we've got more news to share.

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  3. resolved

    Our team has resolved the issue, and performance is now stable across the board; therefore, we're closing this out. We'll continue to monitor all services over the next few hours. Thank you for your patience while we resolved this!

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-549d0533bc

Is Help Scout still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-12-11 13:06 UTC. For Help Scout's live state, see https://down.guide/help-scout.

How long did it last?

1h, from 2025-12-11 12:06 UTC to 2025-12-11 13:06 UTC, by the times Help Scout posted.

What was affected?

Help Scout named Web App, Docs Sites, Beacon.

What caused it?

Help Scout hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Help Scout's official status page, https://status.helpscout.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.