Smartsheet incident

Proof Performance and Watermarks

Resolved after 3 hours 7 minutes, affecting Document Proofing, on March 31, 2026.

postmortem Apr 13, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

On March 30, 2026, at approximately 10:55 PM PDT, the Proofing service encountered issue where users encountered watermarks on all legacy proofs. The outage was caused by a licensing issue and was also compounded by an internal configuration issue causing a full proofing outage. The incident was mitigated by March 31, 2026 at 1:15PM PDT To prevent recurrence, we are conducting a post-incident review focused on improving monitoring and alerting for licensing issues as well bolstering deployment stability.

Started
Mar 31, 2026, 06:53 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 31, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC
Duration
3h 7m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 31, 2026, 06:53 PM UTC

Affected components

Document Proofing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 31, 2026, 06:53 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue causing 'EVALUATION MODE' watermarks and slow loading on proofs. We will provide an update in 30 minutes.

  2. identified Mar 31, 2026, 07:35 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Mar 31, 2026, 08:11 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Mar 31, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  5. postmortem Apr 13, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

    On March 30, 2026, at approximately 10:55 PM PDT, the Proofing service encountered issue where users encountered watermarks on all legacy proofs. The outage was caused by a licensing issue and was also compounded by an internal configuration issue causing a full proofing outage. The incident was mitigated by March 31, 2026 at 1:15PM PDT To prevent recurrence, we are conducting a post-incident review focused on improving monitoring and alerting for licensing issues as well bolstering deployment stability.

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