beehiiv incident
Degraded performance on the beehiiv platform, delaying automation emails, segments, and welcome sends
beehiiv experienced a minor incident on January 22, 2026 affecting Publication websites and App Admin and 1 more component, lasting 2h 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 22, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC
Due to excessive load on our primary database we are seeing delays in automations and segments and increased response times throughout the app. Our engineering team is investigating, as is our database vendor. We'll post updates as we have them.
- investigating Jan 22, 2026, 02:07 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified Jan 22, 2026, 03:21 PM UTC
We are working on restoring functionality, post sends are no longer delayed, but we continue to see delays in automation emails and segments
- monitoring Jan 22, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC
We've implemented a fix that should improve automation emails and segments processing. We are currently monitoring the situation as things improve.
- resolved Jan 22, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.