Smartsheet incident

Both automated and manual approval workflows are currently failing to execute

Resolved after 5 hours 22 minutes, affecting In App Workflows, on October 1, 2026.

postmortem Oct 13, 2026, 04:44 AM UTC

On October 1, 2026, a deployment issue caused automated and manual approval workflows to fail across our US, EU, and AU regions for approximately 4.5 hours \(our Government cloud region was unaffected throughout\). Our team restored normal workflow execution within about an hour of the incident being declared. During recovery, the backlog of requests that had built up caused a smaller, secondary issue: some customers experienced delayed approval/update request notifications. We've since recovered the vast majority of affected notifications and are implementing safeguards to prevent a similar deployment issue from recurring, along with improvements to how our systems handle request backlogs so that delayed notifications are retried automatically rather than silently dropped.

Started
Oct 01, 2026, 05:03 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 01, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC
Duration
5h 22m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 01, 2026, 05:03 PM UTC

Affected components

In App Workflows

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 01, 2026, 05:03 PM UTC

    We have identified issues impacting both automated and manual approval workflows. Our team is fully engaged in addressing the situation. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.

  2. identified Oct 01, 2026, 06:20 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. identified Oct 01, 2026, 07:49 PM UTC

    The initial root cause of the issue has been identified and is now resolved. We are working through a backlog of update and approval workflow creations so there may continue to be a delay in delivery.

  4. monitoring Oct 01, 2026, 08:14 PM UTC

    The outage is resolved, and new update and approval requests are processing normally. A small delay may persist while backlogged requests from the past two hours finish processing.

  5. resolved Oct 01, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been fully resolved, and all backlogged requests have been processed and sent.

  6. postmortem Oct 13, 2026, 04:44 AM UTC

    On October 1, 2026, a deployment issue caused automated and manual approval workflows to fail across our US, EU, and AU regions for approximately 4.5 hours \(our Government cloud region was unaffected throughout\). Our team restored normal workflow execution within about an hour of the incident being declared. During recovery, the backlog of requests that had built up caused a smaller, secondary issue: some customers experienced delayed approval/update request notifications. We've since recovered the vast majority of affected notifications and are implementing safeguards to prevent a similar deployment issue from recurring, along with improvements to how our systems handle request backlogs so that delayed notifications are retried automatically rather than silently dropped.

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