Outage in Gitbook
Degraded database performance
Resolved Minor
May 08, 2026 - Started 5 days ago
- Lasted about 2 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitBook experienced degraded database performance that caused various app actions to hang for 2.4 hours. The engineering team investigated the root cause and deployed a fix. The GitBook App was affected during this incident.
We are seeing a decrease in our database performance causing various actions in the app to hang. Our engineering team is investigating the root cause.
Components affected
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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING
5 days ago - at 05/08/2026 04:39PM
A fix has been deployed, we are monitoring the performance.
INVESTIGATING
5 days ago - at 05/08/2026 03:52PM
We are seeing a decrease in our database performance causing various actions in the app to hang. Our engineering team is investigating the root cause.
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