Gitbook Status · History · Incident #124860

RESOLVED

Degraded database performance

Major · Started May 8, 2026 · 3:52 PM

Duration

2h 22m
Severity

Major
Detection lead

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User reports

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Summary

Degraded database performance

The fix has improved the performance back to their normal levels.

Started

May 8, 2026 · 3:52 PM
Resolved

May 8, 2026 · 6:15 PM
Duration

2h 22m
Severity

Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

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Investigating
May 8 · 3:52 PM Gitbook

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.
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Monitoring
May 8 · 4:39 PM Gitbook

A fix has been deployed, we are monitoring the performance.
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Resolved
May 8 · 6:15 PM Gitbook

The fix has improved the performance back to their normal levels.

Pattern

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