PostHog incident

Workflows: Email sending currently delayed

Resolved after 2 hours 34 minutes, affecting US Cloud 🇺🇸 (Workflows), on September 9, 2026.

monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC

We're still working through the backlog of emails - we're monitoring and will update this incident once we've caught up. You can monitor progress of individual workflows from the 'invocations' tab of the workflow in PostHog - delayed runs will transition from 'Running' to 'Succeeded' once complete.

Started
Sep 09, 2026, 02:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 09, 2026, 05:16 PM UTC
Duration
2h 34m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 09, 2026, 02:42 PM UTC

Affected components

US Cloud 🇺🇸 (Workflows)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 09, 2026, 02:42 PM UTC

    Email sending is currently delayed. We are investigating the issue. No data is lost.

  2. identified Sep 09, 2026, 03:01 PM UTC

    We found the culprit which turns out to be a poison pill entry in our email queue which blocks the queue from proceeding. We are taking steps to resolve this issue.

  3. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 03:12 PM UTC

    We fixed the underlying issue and email sending is proceeding normally again. Emails will be delayed. We are monitoring the fix and taking action to avoid a poison pill like this to happen again.

  4. resolved Sep 09, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC

    Whilst the temporary fix worked we have meanwhile taken action and hardened our systems so this kind of poison pill problem can't happen again. The email queue will drain and some emails will arrive later but no data was lost.

  5. monitoring Sep 09, 2026, 04:21 PM UTC

    We're still working through the backlog of emails - we're monitoring and will update this incident once we've caught up. You can monitor progress of individual workflows from the 'invocations' tab of the workflow in PostHog - delayed runs will transition from 'Running' to 'Succeeded' once complete.

  6. resolved Sep 09, 2026, 05:16 PM UTC

    We've caught up on all Workflow emails.

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