[Gmail]Email Connectivity & Send/Receive Issues - Prod 1 & Prod 2

Update timeline

1. identified May 01, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

   Kustomer is aware of an event affecting Gmail Connectivity and Send & Receive that may cause emails to not route into your Kustomer Platform and impact your ability to send messages on conversations. Our team is currently working to identify the cause of this issue in an effort to implement a resolution. Please expect additional updates within the next 30 minutes, please reach out to Kustomer Support via Chat for any further questions or updates.

2. identified May 01, 2026, 01:39 PM UTC

   Kustomer is aware of an event affecting Gmail Connectivity and Send & Receive that may cause emails to not route into your Kustomer Platform and impact your ability to send messages on conversations. Our team is currently working to identify the cause of this issue in an effort to implement a resolution. Please expect additional updates within the next 30 minutes, please reach out to Kustomer Support via Chat for any further questions or updates.

3. monitoring May 01, 2026, 02:02 PM UTC

   Kustomer has released a fix for the event affecting Gmail Connectivity and Send & Receive functionality that was causing emails to not forward as expected into your Kustomer Platform and impacted sending functionality on conversations. Our team is currently monitoring the released fix to ensure the issue is resolved. Please expect additional updates within the next 30 minutes, please reach out to Kustomer Support via Chat for any further questions or updates.

4. resolved May 01, 2026, 02:17 PM UTC

   Kustomer has resolved an event affecting Gmail Connectivity and Send & Receive functionality in Prod 1 and Prod 2. After careful monitoring, our team has determined that all affected areas are now fully restored. Please reach out to Kustomer support at [email protected] if you have additional questions or concerns.

5. postmortem May 05, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

   ## Summary On May 1, 2026, customers using the Gmail integration experienced a service event that caused Gmail connections to disappear and the email channel to stop functioning. The issue affected customers across different regions, more specifically: * EU-based clients, from 2:40 AM ET. * US-based clients, from 5 AM ET. The issue was fully resolved by 9:20 AM ET. No customer data was lost during this event. Messages that were delayed during the incident were fully recovered once service was restored. Current system health is stable. ## Root cause A configuration issue in the infrastructure used by the Gmail integration prevented replacement service tasks from starting correctly during routine task rotation. As running capacity declined over several hours, the Gmail integration became unavailable. ## Timeline | Time \(ET\) | Event | | --- | --- | | May 1, ~12:30 AM | Service task replacement failures began in production. | | May 1, ~2:40 AM | Engineering was alerted after service capacity dropped to zero in one production environment. | | May 1, 2:40–9:20 AM | Teams investigated the failure, identified the configuration problem, prepared a fix, and deployed it. | | May 1, 9:20 AM | Fix deployed and service restored. | ## Lessons and improvements * We are auditing related infrastructure configurations to identify and correct similar patterns in other services. * We are standardizing how service roles are managed so this class of configuration issue is less likely to recur. * We are improving alerting so teams are notified earlier when running service capacity drops below expected levels, before a full service interruption occurs. * We are adding additional checks to catch configuration drift and invalid service role references earlier in the deployment lifecycle.