diff --git a/packages/builder/src/pages/builder/maintenance/index.svelte b/packages/builder/src/pages/builder/maintenance/index.svelte
index e4c379885a..f7eb16ab81 100644
--- a/packages/builder/src/pages/builder/maintenance/index.svelte
+++ b/packages/builder/src/pages/builder/maintenance/index.svelte
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
             </Body>
           </Layout>
           <Button
-            on:click={() => (window.location = "https://docs.budibase.com")}
+            on:click={() =>
+              (window.location = "https://docs.budibase.com/docs/migrations")}
             >Migration guide</Button
           >
         {/if}
diff --git a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
index 7d4a101fee..7d14e57aba 100644
--- a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
+++ b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/Updating.svelte
@@ -1,18 +1,22 @@
 <script>
   export let isMigrationDone
   export let onMigrationDone
-  export let timeoutSeconds = 10 // 3 minutes
+  export let timeoutSeconds = 60 // 1 minute
+  export let minTimeSeconds = 3
 
   const loadTime = Date.now()
+  const intervalMs = 1000
   let timedOut = false
+  let secondsWaited = 0
 
   async function checkMigrationsFinished() {
     setTimeout(async () => {
       const isMigrated = await isMigrationDone()
 
       const timeoutMs = timeoutSeconds * 1000
-      if (!isMigrated) {
+      if (!isMigrated || secondsWaited <= minTimeSeconds) {
         if (loadTime + timeoutMs > Date.now()) {
+          secondsWaited += 1
           return checkMigrationsFinished()
         }
 
@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@
       }
 
       onMigrationDone()
-    }, 1000)
+    }, intervalMs)
   }
 
   checkMigrationsFinished()
@@ -41,6 +45,11 @@
   <span class="subtext">
     {#if !timedOut}
       Please wait and we will be back in a second!
+      <br />
+      Checkout the
+      <a href="https://docs.budibase.com/docs/app-migrations" target="_blank"
+        >documentation</a
+      > on app migrations.
     {:else}
       An error occurred, please try again later.
       <br />
diff --git a/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts b/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
index 1662a6f225..fb3310619e 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/appMigrations/appMigrationMetadata.ts
@@ -23,16 +23,15 @@ const getCacheKey = (appId: string) => `appmigrations_${env.VERSION}_${appId}`
 export async function getAppMigrationVersion(appId: string): Promise<string> {
   const cacheKey = getCacheKey(appId)
 
-  let metadata: AppMigrationDoc | undefined = await cache.get(cacheKey)
+  let version: string | undefined = await cache.get(cacheKey)
 
   // returned cached version if we found one
-  if (metadata?.version) {
-    return metadata.version
+  if (version) {
+    return version
   }
 
-  let version
   try {
-    metadata = await getFromDB(appId)
+    const metadata = await getFromDB(appId)
     version = metadata.version || ""
   } catch (err: any) {
     if (err.status !== 404) {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 426fa2275d..d71dd4da78 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3495,10 +3495,10 @@
   dependencies:
     lodash "^4.17.21"
 
-"@koa/cors@^3.1.0":
-  version "3.4.3"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@koa/cors/-/cors-3.4.3.tgz#d669ee6e8d6e4f0ec4a7a7b0a17e7a3ed3752ebb"
-  integrity sha512-WPXQUaAeAMVaLTEFpoq3T2O1C+FstkjJnDQqy95Ck1UdILajsRhu6mhJ8H2f4NFPRBoCNN+qywTJfq/gGki5mw==
+"@koa/cors@^5.0.0":
+  version "5.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@koa/cors/-/cors-5.0.0.tgz#0029b5f057fa0d0ae0e37dd2c89ece315a0daffd"
+  integrity sha512-x/iUDjcS90W69PryLDIMgFyV21YLTnG9zOpPXS7Bkt2b8AsY3zZsIpOLBkYr9fBcF3HbkKaER5hOBZLfpLgYNw==
   dependencies:
     vary "^1.1.2"
 
@@ -5817,10 +5817,10 @@
     "@types/koa-compose" "*"
     "@types/node" "*"
 
-"@types/koa__cors@^3.1.1":
-  version "3.3.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/koa__cors/-/koa__cors-3.3.1.tgz#0ec7543c4c620fd23451bfdd3e21b9a6aadedccd"
-  integrity sha512-aFGYhTFW7651KhmZZ05VG0QZJre7QxBxDj2LF1lf6GA/wSXEfKVAJxiQQWzRV4ZoMzQIO8vJBXKsUcRuvYK9qw==
+"@types/koa__cors@^5.0.0":
+  version "5.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/koa__cors/-/koa__cors-5.0.0.tgz#74567a045b599266e2cd3940cef96cedecc2ef1f"
+  integrity sha512-LCk/n25Obq5qlernGOK/2LUwa/2YJb2lxHUkkvYFDOpLXlVI6tKcdfCHRBQnOY4LwH6el5WOLs6PD/a8Uzau6g==
   dependencies:
     "@types/koa" "*"
 
@@ -16343,10 +16343,10 @@ node-source-walk@^5.0.0:
   dependencies:
     "@babel/parser" "^7.0.0"
 
-nodemailer@6.7.2:
-  version "6.7.2"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/nodemailer/-/nodemailer-6.7.2.tgz#44b2ad5f7ed71b7067f7a21c4fedabaec62b85e0"
-  integrity sha512-Dz7zVwlef4k5R71fdmxwR8Q39fiboGbu3xgswkzGwczUfjp873rVxt1O46+Fh0j1ORnAC6L9+heI8uUpO6DT7Q==
+nodemailer@6.9.13:
+  version "6.9.13"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/nodemailer/-/nodemailer-6.9.13.tgz#5b292bf1e92645f4852ca872c56a6ba6c4a3d3d6"
+  integrity sha512-7o38Yogx6krdoBf3jCAqnIN4oSQFx+fMa0I7dK1D+me9kBxx12D+/33wSb+fhOCtIxvYJ+4x4IMEhmhCKfAiOA==
 
 nodemailer@6.9.9:
   version "6.9.9"