# Mintlify: Updates and preview deployments being delayed

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-07-21 17:14 UTC · Resolved: 2026-07-21 18:44 UTC · Duration: 1.5 h
- Updates: 2 · Affected components: Updates
- [Vendor status page: https://status.mintlify.com/incidents/01KY2TQY9RZAY34154TCCVXQS6](https://status.mintlify.com/incidents/01KY2TQY9RZAY34154TCCVXQS6)
- [Company: Mintlify](https://rewindex.com/company/mintlify.md)

## Part of an outage event

- [GitHub outage, Jul 21, 2026: 15 vendors, 19 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-07-21-github)
- This incident blames GitHub as the cause. (hop 1, posted +6 h 43 min vs GitHub’s own post)
- Evidence: “…not able to update their docs Root Cause: Updates failed due to a hitting a rate limit on Github Time Range: 4:40 AM - 8:00 AM PST Impact: Customers were not able to update their docs Root Cause: Upda…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["GitHub<br/>posted 10:31 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before GitHub did<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed GitHub<br/>Semaphore"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>2 vendors, 2 blamed GitHub<br/>HashiCorp, Terraform Cloud (HCP)"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  later["Later<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed GitHub<br/>Mintlify"]:::blames
  root --> later
  p0["Anthropic<br/>posted −20 min, did not name GitHub"]:::timing
  root -.-> p0
  k0["Bolt.new, Cursor<br/>−16 min to +7 h 14 min"]:::hop2
  p0 -->|"blamed Anthropic"| k0
  me["Mintlify (this incident)<br/>posted +6 h 43 min"]:::me
  later --- me
```

_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-07-21 17:14 UTC: We're investigating delays or stalls in documentation updates
- **resolved** 2026-07-21 18:44 UTC: Impact: Customers were not able to update their docs Root Cause: Updates failed due to a hitting a rate limit on Github Time Range: 4:40 AM - 8:00 AM PST


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/mintlify/incidents/01KY2TQY9RZAY34154TCCVXQS6 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/company/mintlify/incidents/01KY2TQY9RZAY34154TCCVXQS6.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/companies/mintlify/incidents/01KY2TQY9RZAY34154TCCVXQS6 · Generated 2026-10-19T23:16:55.433Z