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    53 recorded Hotjar incidents since February 2024, with official updates, affected components, duration and resolution information.

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    Data collection paused for some customers

    Started September 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM UTC · 3h 41m

    Pending
    1. September 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM UTCidentified

      Some accounts may experience a temporary pause in Hotjar Session Recordings and see tag verification warnings. The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

    2. September 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM UTCmonitoring

      A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

    3. September 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved, and data is collecting as normal.

    Growth customers not renewed on 12 Aug for one day

    Started August 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. August 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Potentially all hotjar accounts with varying degrees of limited service.

    Started July 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. August 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Missing VOC Responses

    Started June 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    Affected components
    insights.hotjar.com
    1. June 12, 2026 at 9:07 AM UTCresolved

      We experienced a temporary issue where some VOC responses may not have been captured between 12:00 UTC and 14:20 UTC on June 10th. System performance has since returned to normal.

    Potential login issues to Hotjar

    Started January 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTC · 16h 19m

    Pending
    1. January 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTCmonitoring

      On 22nd January 9.30am UTC we deployed a change that meant users who: - Created a Contentsquare Account - Were then invited to a Hotjar Account Would be unable to login to the Hotjar Account due to a bug on the login process. On 27th January 5pm UTC, we deployed a change to undo the root cause and we are resolving the issue for the mistakenly locked accounts.

    2. January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Surveys not opening in Hotjar application

    Started January 20, 2026 at 8:07 AM UTC · 59m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    insights.hotjar.com
    1. January 20, 2026 at 8:07 AM UTCinvestigating

      We are currently investigating this issue.

    2. January 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Heatmaps: Issues Generating New Screenshots

    Started November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM UTC · 2d 11h

    IssuesMinor incident
    1. November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are experiencing loading issues with Heatmaps & Z onings when creating new screenshots or when providing screenshot suggestions. Our team is currently investigating. Manual screenshots can be used as workaround for both Heatmaps and Zonings while we are fixing the issue.

    2. November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM UTCmonitoring

      We’ve identified the issue and deployed a fix. We’re currently monitoring the results to ensure everything is stable.

    3. November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM UTCresolved

      This incident is resolved, and Heatmaps are working as normal.

    Hotjar.com Down

    Started September 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. September 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM UTCresolved

      Our website, Hotjar.com was briefly inaccessible, but service has been restored. Thanks for bearing with us, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.

    VoC issues

    Started September 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM UTCresolved

      We have identified and resolved the cause of the issue. If you experience any further problems, please contact Support.

    Investigating Issues with Interview Scheduling Timezones

    Started September 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM UTC · 4d 3h

    Pending
    1. September 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM UTCinvestigating

      Investigating - We have identified an issue with Interviews where the selected timezone for a project is not being applied correctly during participant scheduling. Our team is actively investigating the cause and will provide an update as soon as possible.

    2. September 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM UTCresolved

      This issue has been resolved. A fix was deployed to ensure interview scheduling now correctly uses the timezone set in the project’s settings. We apologize for the inconvenience.

    Error when fetching User Attributes

    Started August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM UTC · 1d 0h

    Pending
    1. August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM UTCinvestigating

      We're currently investigating an issue where User Attributes can't be accessed in Insights Site Settings, as well an “Error when fetching User Attributes” message preventing the use of Session Filters. Our engineers are working to fix the issue ASAP and will post updates to status.hotjar.com. Thanks for bearing with us!

    2. August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM UTCresolved

      We have identified the cause of the issue and resolved it. Thanks so much for bearing with us while we investigated and resolved this! We’re sorry for the trouble as well. If you experience any further issues, please raise a ticket through our Help Center. Thanks!

    Survey changes are not saving correctly

    Started April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM UTC · 1h 30m

    Pending
    1. April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM UTCinvestigating

      We’ve declared an incident to investigate reports of Surveys not activating/deactivating, and other changes to the Survey settings not being reflected on customer websites. We’ve formed an incident response team and they’re investigating this together. We’ll post further updates to this incident report when we have them, but in the meantime, we’re sorry for the trouble. Thanks a lot for bearing with us!

    2. April 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM UTCidentified

      We’ve identified the root cause of the incident. We’re working on developing a fix and hope to share more news soon. We’ll post another update to this page once we’ve deployed the fix, and we move on to monitoring it to check it’s resolved the fault. Thanks for bearing with us.

    3. April 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM UTCresolved

      We’ve validated the deployed fix has worked, and we’re closing this incident. Thanks so much for bearing with us while we investigated and resolved this! We’re sorry for the trouble as well. If you don’t think the incident is resolved, or you’re still seeing problems on your end please raise a ticket through our Help Center: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/requests/new Thanks!

    Hotjar.com down for some users

    Started March 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. March 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM UTCresolved

      We've resolved an issue where hotjar.com was down for some users. This did not affect Insights nor data collection. hotjar.com is back up and running. Thank you for your patience! If you’re still seeing problems on your end please raise a ticket through our Help Center: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thanks!

    Hotjar.com did not capture data for some users on free plans between Jan 22-Feb 28

    Started February 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    1. March 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM UTCresolved

      We've resolved an issue! hotjar.com is back up and running. Thank you for your patience! If you’re still seeing problems on your end please raise a ticket through our Help Center: https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thanks!

    Surveys not recording impressions metric

    Started February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM UTC · 1h 3m

    Pending
    1. February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM UTCinvestigating

      We’ve declared an incident to investigate reports of surveys not recording the impressions metric, which, in turn, affects the other Overview metrics. We’ve formed an incident response team and they’re investigating this together. We’ll post further updates to this incident report when we have them, but in the meantime, we’re really sorry for the trouble with your stats. Thanks a lot for bearing with us!

    2. February 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM UTCidentified

      We’ve identified the root cause for the incident! We’re working on developing a fix and hope to share more news soon. We’ll post another update to this page once we’ve deployed the fix, and we’re monitoring it to check it’s resolved the fault. Thanks for bearing with us!

    3. February 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM UTCresolved

      We’ve deployed the fix we mentioned earlier, and we’re closing this incident. Thanks so much for bearing with us while we investigated and resolved this! We’re sorry for the trouble as well. If you don’t think the incident is resolved, or you’re still seeing problems on your end please raise a ticket through our Help Center (https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/requests/new). Thanks!

    Unable to verify tag installation

    Started January 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM UTC · 3h 51m

    Pending
    1. January 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM UTCinvestigating

      We're investigating an issue with being unable to verify tag installation. Our engineers are working to fix the issue ASAP and will post updates to status.hotjar.com. Thanks for bearing with us!

    2. January 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM UTCresolved

      This incident is now resolved. Thanks for bearing with us!

    Ask Tools Temporarily Unavailable

    Started January 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM UTC · 1d 3h

    Pending
    1. January 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM UTCinvestigating

      We've identified an issue that causes the Surveys to be temporarily unavailable. Our engineers are working to fix the issue ASAP. Thanks for bearing with us!

    2. January 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM UTCinvestigating

      We've deployed a fix for this issue and are monitoring the situation to ensure everything is back to normal.

    3. January 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM UTCmonitoring

      After further investigation, our team detected the following impact: - Survey screenshots were not captured - User attributes in Survey responses were not captured - Sentiment analysis could not run (it can be re-ran now) - Automated tags did not run (they can be re-ran now) - Surveys' integrations with Slack/MS Teams/Zapier/Webhooks did not run The timeframe for this impact was Jan 20 ~00:00 UTC to Jan 20 ~7:15 UTC. We're really sorry for the trouble. We're monitoring the situation to ensure everything is back to normal.

    4. January 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM UTCresolved

      This incident is now resolved. Thanks for bearing with us!

    Some users can't access the individual survey from the survey list page

    Started December 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM UTC · 1h 22m

    Pending
    1. December 12, 2024 at 4:42 PM UTCinvestigating

      We’ve declared an incident to investigate reports of some users being unable to access survey-specific pages from the survey list. We’ve formed an incident response team and they’re investigating this together. We’ll post further updates to this incident report when we have them, but in the meantime we’re really sorry for the trouble with accessing your survey. Thanks a lot for bearing with us!

    2. December 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM UTCresolved

      We’ve identified the root cause, deployed, and validated the fix has worked. We’re closing this incident. Thanks so much for bearing with us while we investigated and resolved this! We’re sorry for the trouble as well. If you don’t think the incident is resolved, or you’re still seeing problems on your end please raise a ticket through our Help Center. Thanks!

    Insights sporadically unavailable

    Started November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM UTC · 36m

    Pending
    1. November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM UTCinvestigating

      We’re investigating an issue with a failing system that is causing sporadic maintenance mode messages to appear. Our engineers are working to fix the issue ASAP and will post updates to status.hotjar.com. Thanks for bearing with us!

    2. November 28, 2024 at 10:05 AM UTCidentified

      The external service has recovered and normal operations have returned. We are monitoring the situation to ensure that everything is stable.

    3. November 28, 2024 at 10:07 AM UTCmonitoring

      The external service has recovered and normal operations have returned. We are monitoring the situation to ensure that everything is stable.

    4. November 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM UTCresolved

      This incident is now resolved. Thanks for bearing with us!

    Engage is unavailable

    Started November 25, 2024 at 11:31 AM UTC · 1h 4m

    Pending
    1. November 25, 2024 at 11:31 AM UTCinvestigating

      The Engage product is currently down. Our engineers are working to fix the issue ASAP and will post updates to status.hotjar.com. Thanks for bearing with us!

    2. November 25, 2024 at 12:35 PM UTCresolved

      This incident is now resolved. Thank you for bearing with us!