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Degraded Performance & Slow Loading Issues

Degraded Lasted 48m · started · Help Scout's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Web App
Down Index
19of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Help Scout Web App. 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 48m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-09-16 08:18 UTC and 2025-09-16 09:06 UTC may need a replay.
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    https://down.guide/feed?provider=help-scout works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Help Scout 2

  1. investigating

    We're investigating reports of slow loading and general sluggishness across the web app. You may notice longer-than-usual load times and delays when working from Help Scout. We will post here again as soon as we have more to share.

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  2. resolved

    Our engineers have identified and resolved the issue, so load times should now be back to normal once again. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this one!

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-abd9855660

Is Help Scout still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-09-16 09:06 UTC. For Help Scout's live state, see https://down.guide/help-scout.

How long did it last?

48m, from 2025-09-16 08:18 UTC to 2025-09-16 09:06 UTC, by the times Help Scout posted.

What was affected?

Help Scout named Web App.

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.