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Help Scout is operational right now. Last checked 2m ago; the most recent incident resolved 2d ago.
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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- Web AppEmail ProcessingMailbox counts, folders, reports, search results
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating · May 08, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC
We're looking into a few issues that are currently impacting performance around several areas of Help Scout. Things like inbound email, your Closed folder, other Workflows folders, message counts/previews, search results, and potentially page loads. We'll continue to update as we make progress! Thanks for your patience.
- identified · May 08, 2026, 01:21 AM UTC
Due to an outage with one of our third-party service providers, inbound email delays and other sluggishness around the app may continue. We're closely monitoring updates from our provider and working to improve performance as quickly as possible.
- monitoring · May 08, 2026, 01:35 AM UTC
In-app performance has recovered in Help Scout and any delayed inbound email should now be delivered. We're continuing to monitor this situation as our third-party provider is still experiencing degraded performance. We'll continue to monitor that situation and will post updates as they come.
- resolved · May 08, 2026, 02:05 AM UTC
Alright folks, all services are stable so we're closing this out. Thanks for your patience and apologies for the disruption today!
Latest: Alright folks, all services are stable so we're closing this out. Thanks for your patience and apologies for the disruption today!
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- Docs SitesAI Answers
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · May 06, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue that is impacting Help Scout Docs Sites and AI Answers in Beacon. We will update here as soon as we have more information to share.
- monitoring · May 06, 2026, 05:02 PM UTC
Our engineering team has released a fix, and Docs Sites and AI Answers are now loading again. Our team is monitoring this at the moment, and we will update again once we're sure everything is resolved.
- resolved · May 06, 2026, 06:40 PM UTC
Resolved - The loading issues with AI Answers and Docs have been resolved, so we're closing this out. Sorry for the interruption today, folks!
Latest: Resolved - The loading issues with AI Answers and Docs have been resolved, so we're closing this out. Sorry for the interruption today, folks!
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- Web App
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating · Apr 27, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC
We're currently investigating reports of slow page loads and timeouts when accessing the web app. We’ll share an update as soon as we have more information. Apologies for the disruption and thanks for your patience as we investigate.
- resolved · Apr 27, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC
Our team has identified and resolved the issue, and performance is now stable across the board. We'll continue to monitor all services over the next few hours. Thank you for your patience while we resolved this.
Latest: Our team has identified and resolved the issue, and performance is now stable across the board. We'll continue to monitor all services over the next few hours. Thank you for your p…
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- AI DraftsAI AnswersAI SummarizeAI Assist
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating · Apr 21, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC
We’re currently investigating reports of issues with our AI Features. We will continue to update as we have more information.
- monitoring · Apr 21, 2026, 08:22 PM UTC
Our team has pushed a fix for this issue and we're monitoring the situation for now. We're hopeful that we can get things back to normal soon!
- monitoring · Apr 21, 2026, 09:29 PM UTC
Our AI features should all be functional again! We'll continue to monitor things for a bit longer just to make sure all is well before closing this one out.
- resolved · Apr 21, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC
Thanks for your patience today folks. This issue has been resolved an all AI features should be functioning normally again. Apologies for the disruption!
Latest: Thanks for your patience today folks. This issue has been resolved an all AI features should be functioning normally again. Apologies for the disruption!
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- Web App
Timeline · 2 updates
- identified · Apr 20, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC
Our engineering team has identified intermittent access issues with the web app. We will update here once everything has been confirmed as resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
- resolved · Apr 20, 2026, 03:04 PM UTC
The team has confirmed that the access issues have been fully resolved, and this incident is now closed. Thank you again for your patience!
Latest: The team has confirmed that the access issues have been fully resolved, and this incident is now closed. Thank you again for your patience!
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- Started May 08, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC · Resolved May 08, 2026, 02:05 AM UTC · 1h 21m
- Docs and AI Answers Issues ResolvedStarted May 06, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC · Resolved May 06, 2026, 06:40 PM UTC · 1h 47m
- Connection Issues ResolvedStarted Apr 27, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 27, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC · 10m
- AI Feature Issue ResolvedStarted Apr 21, 2026, 07:50 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 21, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC · 2h 10m
- Connection Issues ResolvedStarted Apr 20, 2026, 02:52 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 20, 2026, 03:04 PM UTC · 11m
- Started Apr 14, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 14, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC · 39m
- Started Apr 13, 2026, 09:51 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 13, 2026, 11:27 PM UTC · 1h 36m
- Inbound Email Issues ResolvedStarted Apr 08, 2026, 04:40 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 08, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC · 6h 30m