Buttondown Outage History

Buttondown had 4 outages in the last 2 years — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 4 Buttondown outages since April 2, 2026. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor June 10, 2026

Images not loading

Affected: Subscriber-facing appAuthor-facing appEmails

Timeline · 4 updates

investigating Jun 10, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that images are not loading in the Editor, Archives and Emails. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Degraded performance) Emails (Degraded performance) Author-facing app (Degraded performance)
identified Jun 10, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC

Status: Identified We've learned that this image issue is related to an ongoing incident with Cloudflare files: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/fpxb33vnw9bw. We're continuing to monitor the situation and we'll update when we have more information. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Degraded performance) Emails (Degraded performance) Author-facing app (Degraded performance)
monitoring Jun 10, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring We've moved traffic off the impacted Cloudflare infrastructure, and we're seeing images working as expected again. (Give your browser a good refresh!) We'll continue to monitor for any lingering issues. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Emails (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)
resolved Jun 10, 2026, 04:35 PM UTC

Status: Resolved The fix has been stable, and we've had confirmation from Authors that images are working as expected now. Marking this resolved ✅ Affected components Emails (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational) Subscriber-facing app (Operational)

Minor June 4, 2026

Affected: Emails

Timeline · 4 updates

investigating Jun 04, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're monitoring an incident on Postmark: https://status.postmarkapp.com/notices/cjagqohtofnqt9ts-email-sending-delays, that's causing a delay for outbound newsletters and transactional emails. Affected components Emails (Partial outage)
identified Jun 04, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

Status: Identified We're currently rerouting traffic to other ESPs. This includes newsletters on the Buttondown domain, and newsletters with managed custom domains: https://docs.buttondown.com/sending-from-a-custom-domain#managed-sending-domain-setup, and transactional emails. Newsletters with a manual sending domain on Postmark servers are still impacted by this outage. Affected components Emails (Partial outage)
monitoring Jun 04, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring Postmark shipped a fix, and are recovering from the incident! We're seeing the backlog start to clear, and we'll continue monitoring. Affected components Emails (Degraded performance)
resolved Jun 04, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC

Status: Resolved We're seeing the backlog clear, and emails arriving in inbox! We'll continue to keep an eye on the outbound queue. Affected components Emails (Operational)

Minor April 24, 2026

Affected: Subscriber-facing app

Timeline · 3 updates

investigating Apr 24, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that Archives are not loading. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Full outage)
monitoring Apr 24, 2026, 04:49 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring Archives are back online, but may have some lingering errors. We'll continue to monitor. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Degraded performance)
resolved Apr 24, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

Status: Resolved Archives have remained stable, and we're no longer seeing any lingering errors. This incident is now resolved. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational)

Minor April 2, 2026

Affected: Subscriber-facing appAuthor-facing app

Timeline · 5 updates

investigating Mar 31, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that the Buttondown app is down. This is impacting both the author-facing Dashboard, as well as Archives. Affected components Author-facing app (Full outage) Subscriber-facing app (Full outage)
monitoring Mar 31, 2026, 08:36 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring Both the Dashboard and Archives back online, but the team is going to continue to monitor. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)
investigating Apr 01, 2026, 07:12 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We're currently investigating reports that the author-facing Dashboard and Archives are down. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Full outage) Author-facing app (Full outage)
monitoring Apr 01, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

Status: Monitoring We're seeing that the Dashboard and Archives are back online! We'll continue monitoring and looking for additional error reports. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)
resolved Apr 02, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

Status: Resolved The fix has been stable, so we're calling this incident resolved. We'll have a recap post available soon. Affected components Subscriber-facing app (Operational) Author-facing app (Operational)