diff --git a/discord/client.py b/discord/client.py
index 3b5b948b7..0990690ef 100644
--- a/discord/client.py
+++ b/discord/client.py
@@ -718,6 +718,9 @@ class Client:
 
         Raises
         -------
+        GatewayNotFound
+            If the gateway to connect to Discord is not found. Usually if this
+            is thrown then there is a Discord API outage.
         ConnectionClosed
             The websocket connection has been terminated.
         """
diff --git a/discord/http.py b/discord/http.py
index b6b0f625d..d34510591 100644
--- a/discord/http.py
+++ b/discord/http.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ import datetime
 import aiohttp
 
 from .enums import RelationshipAction, InviteType
-from .errors import HTTPException, RateLimited, Forbidden, NotFound, LoginFailure, DiscordServerError, CaptchaRequired
+from .errors import HTTPException, RateLimited, Forbidden, NotFound, LoginFailure, DiscordServerError, GatewayNotFound, CaptchaRequired
 from .file import File
 from .tracking import ContextProperties
 from . import utils
@@ -4050,7 +4050,10 @@ class HTTPClient:
     # Misc
 
     async def get_gateway(self, *, encoding: str = 'json', zlib: bool = True) -> str:
-        data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/gateway'))
+        try:
+            data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/gateway'))
+        except HTTPException as exc:
+            raise GatewayNotFound() from exc
         if zlib:
             value = '{0}?encoding={1}&v={2}&compress=zlib-stream'
         else:
diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
index 70a0d4dea..59cf2bf8d 100644
--- a/docs/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -7628,6 +7628,8 @@ The following exceptions are thrown by the library.
 
 .. autoexception:: InvalidData
 
+.. autoexception:: GatewayNotFound
+
 .. autoexception:: ConnectionClosed
 
 .. autoexception:: discord.opus.OpusError
@@ -7645,6 +7647,7 @@ Exception Hierarchy
                 - :exc:`InvalidData`
                 - :exc:`LoginFailure`
                 - :exc:`ConnectionClosed`
+            - :exc:`GatewayNotFound`
             - :exc:`HTTPException`
                 - :exc:`Forbidden`
                 - :exc:`NotFound`