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Outage in Help Scout

Global Search Slowness

Resolved Minor
June 17, 2026 - Started 1 day ago - Lasted about 23 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Help Scout experienced a 23-hour incident where global search returned slow or incomplete results and occasionally failed entirely, affecting the web app, mailbox counts, folders, reports, search results, and the Mailbox API 2.0. Tag management was also impacted during the later stages of the incident. Engineering resolved the issue in phases, with search recovering first and tag management restored shortly after, bringing all affected systems back to normal by June 18.

Some customers may be seeing slower-than-usual results or occasional failures when using global search. We've identified the cause, and our engineering team is actively working on a fix. We'll post an update here as soon as the situation improves.

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RESOLVED about 12 hours ago - at 06/18/2026 10:45AM

This issue has been resolved. Global search and tag management are performing normally again. We're sorry for the disruption this caused. If you're still experiencing issues, please email help@helpscout.com, and we'd be happy to assist. Again, thank you for your patience while we got to the bottom of this.

IDENTIFIED about 14 hours ago - at 06/18/2026 08:47AM

Our engineering team has made progress on the issue affecting global search: search results are recovering for affected customers. Tag management may still be affected for some customers; our team is working on a resolution. We'll post another update as soon as we have more.

IDENTIFIED about 17 hours ago - at 06/18/2026 06:22AM

Our engineering team has resumed work on the issue affecting global search this morning. Some customers may continue to see slower-than-usual or incomplete search results while this is in progress. We'll share another update as soon as we have more.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 06/17/2026 03:43PM

Our team continues to address the issue affecting global search and has scheduled further work for tomorrow morning (CET) during a low-traffic window. Some customers may experience intermittent search slowness until this is complete.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 06/17/2026 01:11PM

Our team is continuing to work on the issue affecting global search. Some customers may still see slower-than-usual results in the meantime. We'll post another update as soon as we have more to share.

IDENTIFIED 1 day ago - at 06/17/2026 11:46AM

Some customers may be seeing slower-than-usual results or occasional failures when using global search. We've identified the cause, and our engineering team is actively working on a fix. We'll post an update here as soon as the situation improves.

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