Notion is an all-in-one productivity workspace combining documents, databases, wikis, project management, and AI assistance into a single platform used by over 30 million users. Teams use Notion for internal wikis, product roadmaps, meeting notes, knowledge bases, and project tracking. Notion's flexible block-based editor allows users to build custom workflows without code. The platform's recent addition of Notion AI has made it a hub for AI-assisted writing, summarization, and data analysis within existing workspaces.
Notion outages typically involve database backend performance issues that cause pages to load slowly or not at all. Real-time collaboration features rely on WebSocket connections that can fail during infrastructure strain, causing edits to desync between users. Search indexing delays make content unfindable. API rate limiting affects integrations during peak hours. Large workspace databases with thousands of pages are particularly susceptible to performance degradation during platform-wide incidents.
When Notion goes down, teams lose access to their documentation, project databases, and knowledge bases simultaneously. Product teams cannot reference roadmaps or specs, engineering teams lose access to internal wikis and runbooks, and onboarding documentation becomes unavailable for new hires. The loss is particularly acute for organizations that have consolidated their documentation stack entirely into Notion, leaving no backup reference system.
Use this page to check Notion availability. Notion outages may affect the web app, desktop app, and mobile app simultaneously since they share the same backend infrastructure. Check status.notion.so for official incident reports and subscribe to their status page for email updates.
Notion performance issues often precede full outages. Slow page loading, database query timeouts, and real-time collaboration lag indicate backend strain. Large databases with many relations and rollups are more affected during degradation. Check Notion's status page for any acknowledged performance issues before troubleshooting your workspace.
Notion's desktop app has limited offline mode that caches recently viewed pages for reading. However, you cannot create new pages, edit databases, or search during an outage. Mobile apps also cache some recently viewed content. For critical documentation, consider periodically exporting important pages as PDF or Markdown backups.
Notion experiences minor performance degradations several times per month, with full outages occurring roughly quarterly. Most incidents are resolved within 1-3 hours. The platform's reliability has improved significantly as Notion has scaled its infrastructure, but rapid user growth continues to stress the backend during peak usage periods.
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