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All Help Scout systems are being actively monitored and any issues will be reported here. If you are having trouble and don't see updates here, please email help@helpscout.net.

Web App Operational
90 days ago
99.96 % uptime
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Docs Sites Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
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Beacon Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
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Mobile Apps Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Public APIs Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Inbox API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Docs API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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AI Services Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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AI Drafts Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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AI Answers Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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AI Summarize Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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AI Assist Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Scheduled Maintenance

Scheduled Database Maintenance Apr 25, 2026 09:00-10:00 EDT

We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 9:00 AM Eastern. We expect this maintenance to last no more than 1 hour.

During this maintenance period, AI Drafts will not be available, and you will not be able to change AI Drafts settings.

We will provide updates here if anything changes during the maintenance window.

Posted on Apr 15, 2026 - 11:59 EDT
Apr 15, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Apr 14, 2026
Resolved - Our team found and resolved the issue, and AI Drafts are generating drafts again. Thanks for bearing with us today, folks!
Apr 14, 13:01 EDT
Investigating - Investigating - We've received reports of AI Drafts not being able to generate drafts. We're looking into it, and we'll post updates here as we have them.
Apr 14, 12:21 EDT
Apr 13, 2026
Resolved - Our team has resolved this issue. You should no longer see inconsistent reporting metrics or any issues with reporting views. Apologies for the disruption today, folks!
Apr 13, 19:27 EDT
Update - Our team are still investigating issues with Reports. For now, you may see some inconsistent metrics as well as issues when creating/applying views to Reports. We'll post again as soon as we have more to share - thanks for your patience while we work on this!
Apr 13, 18:57 EDT
Investigating - Hey there folks, we're currently receiving reports of Reporting Views displaying inconsistent metrics. Our team is investigating and we'll be back with more updates soon!
Apr 13, 17:51 EDT
Apr 12, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 11, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 10, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 9, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 8, 2026
Resolved - It looks like the issue at Google has been resolved, so inbound emails forwarded to Help Scout from Google accounts should now be working as normal once again. If you do run into any further issues, just reach out to let us know.
Apr 8, 19:10 EDT
Update - Just sharing another quick update, we're still monitoring this outage at Google. For now, some incoming emails may not be forwarded to Help Scout from from Gmail and Google Groups. We'll continue to post updates here until the issue has been resolved.
Apr 8, 18:29 EDT
Update - We are still monitoring this ongoing outage with Google, which continues to impact emails forwarded to Help Scout in certain cases. As soon as we have confirmation from Google that this issue has been fully resolved, we'll post an update here. Thanks for your continued patience!
Apr 8, 15:47 EDT
Identified - We're continuing to monitor issues with inbound mail as a result of a current outage at Google, which seems to specifically impact certain emails forwarded from Google Workspace emails. We'll keep sharing updates on this as we get them from Google.
Apr 8, 14:22 EDT
Update - We’re still investigating issues with inbound emails for some accounts. This seems to be impacting emails forwarded from Google, specifically from Google Groups. We will continue to share updates as soon as we know more - thanks for your patience!
Apr 8, 13:29 EDT
Investigating - We’re currently investigating reports of inbound email issues. For some Inboxes, emails are not being forwarded from Gmail into Help Scout, starting from around 1pm UTC. We'll post again as soon as we have more to share.
Apr 8, 12:40 EDT
Apr 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Apr 1, 2026

No incidents reported.