Is Gitbook down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.

How often does Gitbook go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 4 incidents, of which 3 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 24m.

How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.

Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.

What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.

ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL

Gitbook systems
are operational.

Pulsetic detects outages before the provider officially reports them. Monitoring since Sep 2025 · 15 incidents caught

Last checked: 5 min ago · 0 user reports (24h) · Trusted by 30,000+ teams

ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL

Gitbook is up and running.

Last incident resolved 1 week ago

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Top reported issues

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Degraded performance 0

Error messages 0

Timeouts / no response 0

Authentication issues 0

Network / connectivity issues 0

Feature not working 0

API errors 0

Billing or usage issues 0

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Distribution of reported issues over the last 24 hours.

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Degraded performance 0%

Error messages 0%

Timeouts / no response 0%

Authentication issues 0%

Network / connectivity issues 0%

Feature not working 0%

API errors 0%

Billing or usage issues 0%

Other 0%

90-Day Health Summary

Total Incidents

4

Jun 19 to Sep 17, 2026
Major / Critical

3

75% of the total
Minor Incidents

1

Avg. 0.0 per day
Median Resolution

1h 24m

P95: 7h 18m

Gitbook Response Time, ms

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Location List

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Recent Outage History

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Incident	Started	Duration	Impact	Status	Link
App and published docs unavailable	Sep 5, 2026 · 6:56 PM	4m	Critical	Resolved	Details →
GitHub outage affecting Git Sync	Aug 17, 2026 · 1:56 PM	7h 18m	Minor	Resolved	Details →
GitBook webapp is returning 500	Jun 25, 2026 · 11:34 AM	1h 33m	Critical	Resolved	Details →
Sites are failing intermittently with 500 Internal Server Error	Jun 22, 2026 · 2:58 PM	1h 16m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Increased API error rate	Jun 2, 2026 · 2:40 PM	1h 28m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Degraded database performance	May 8, 2026 · 3:52 PM	2h 22m	Major	Resolved	Details →
500 errors on some *.gitbook.io published sites	May 4, 2026 · 11:55 AM	2h 4m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Git Sync executions are delayed due to third-party outage	Apr 15, 2026 · 3:34 PM	13h 22m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Degraded API performance	Mar 27, 2026 · 2:43 PM	4h 4m	Major	Resolved	Details →
Documentation sites with a custom domain returned a 404 error	Mar 6, 2026 · 4:56 PM	2h 20m	Major	Resolved	Details →

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Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Gitbook down today?

Check the status badge at the top of this page for the current status. Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes and cross-references with user reports to give you the most accurate picture.
How often does Gitbook go down?

Based on our 90-day data, we've detected 4 incidents, of which 3 were major or critical. The median resolution time is 1h 24m.
How are outages detected?

Pulsetic polls the official status page every few minutes from multiple global locations. Crowdsourced user reports provide an additional early-warning signal, often surfacing issues before the official monitors catch them.
Is it down for everyone or just me?

The outage map and region breakdown help answer this. If reports are concentrated in one area it may be regional; if hotspots appear globally it's a widespread outage. Submit your own report to help others understand the scope.
What does "never acknowledged" mean?

"Never acknowledged" means Pulsetic detected a real service disruption, confirmed by multiple user reports, but the official status page never posted an incident for it. This is one of the core reasons teams use third-party monitoring alongside official status pages.

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