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Docs site not loading

Major outage Lasted 1h 19m · started · Help Scout's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Major outage
Components
Docs Sites
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use Help Scout Docs Sites. 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 19m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-12-20 21:24 UTC and 2025-12-20 22:43 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 are currently investigating an issue that is causing Docs sites to not load. We will update here as soon as we have more information to share.

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  2. monitoring

    Docs sites are back to loading, and our team is monitoring things at this time. We will update again when we're sure things are all resolved.

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  3. resolved

    Docs is back to fully operational.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-a1efa1a019

Is Help Scout still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-12-20 22:43 UTC. For Help Scout's live state, see https://down.guide/help-scout.

How long did it last?

1h 19m, from 2025-12-20 21:24 UTC to 2025-12-20 22:43 UTC, by the times Help Scout posted.

What was affected?

Help Scout named Docs Sites.

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.