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