GitBook incident

Degraded database performance

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

GitBook experienced a minor incident on May 8, 2026 affecting GitBook App, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 08, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC
Resolved
May 08, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC
Duration
Detected by Pingoru
May 08, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

Affected components

GitBook App

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 08, 2026, 03:52 PM UTC

    Status: Investigating 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. Affected components GitBook App (Partial outage)

  2. monitoring May 08, 2026, 04:39 PM UTC

    Status: Monitoring A fix has been deployed, we are monitoring the performance. Affected components GitBook App (Partial outage)

  3. resolved May 08, 2026, 06:15 PM UTC

    Status: Resolved The fix has improved the performance back to their normal levels. Affected components GitBook App (Operational)