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Help Scout: Critical incident: Docs site not loading

Summary

Help Scout’s Docs Sites failed to load in a critical outage starting 2025-12-20 21:24 UTC. Sites were loading again by 2025-12-20 21:59 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-12-20 22:43 UTC, lasting 1 h 19 min.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

AddedTitle#1
Before: not present
After: Docs site not loading
AddedImpact#2
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After: critical
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
Before: not present
After: 2025-12-20 21:24 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2025-12-20 22:43 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
Before: not present
After: Docs Sites
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
Before: not present
After: We are currently investigating an issue that is causing Docs sites to not load. We will update here as soon as we have more information to share.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
Before: not present
After: Docs sites are back to loading, and our team is monitoring things at this time. We will update again when we're sure things are all resolved.
AddedUpdateresolved#9
Before: not present
After: Docs is back to fully operational.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Docs site not loading (this change)
Help Scout’s Docs Sites failed to load in a critical outage starting 2025-12-20 21:24 UTC. Sites were loading again by 2025-12-20 21:59 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2025-12-20 22:43 UTC, lasting 1 h 19 min.
Major incident

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