Help Scout incident

Docs and AI Answers Issues

Resolved after 1 hour 47 minutes, affecting Docs Sites and AI Answers, on May 6, 2026.

resolved May 06, 2026, 06:40 PM UTC

Resolved - The loading issues with AI Answers and Docs have been resolved, so we're closing this out. Sorry for the interruption today, folks!

Started
May 06, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC
Resolved
May 06, 2026, 06:40 PM UTC
Duration
1h 47m
Detected by Pingoru
May 06, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC

Affected components

Docs SitesAI Answers

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 06, 2026, 04:53 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue that is impacting Help Scout Docs Sites and AI Answers in Beacon. We will update here as soon as we have more information to share.

  2. monitoring May 06, 2026, 05:02 PM UTC

    Our engineering team has released a fix, and Docs Sites and AI Answers are now loading again. Our team is monitoring this at the moment, and we will update again once we're sure everything is resolved.

  3. resolved May 06, 2026, 06:40 PM UTC

    Resolved - The loading issues with AI Answers and Docs have been resolved, so we're closing this out. Sorry for the interruption today, folks!

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