Smartsheet experienced a major incident on December 4, 2025 affecting Document Builder, lasting 2h 31m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 04, 2025, 06:55 PM UTC
We are investigating issues with requests to generate documents impacting Document Generation Automations and manual Document Generation. Our team is fully engaged in addressing the situation. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.
- investigating Dec 04, 2025, 07:26 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate the cause of issues with requests to Generate Documents impacting Document Generation Automations and manual Document Generation. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.
- identified Dec 04, 2025, 07:30 PM UTC
We have identified the issue responsible for the delays with Document Generation and are implementing a fix. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.
- monitoring Dec 04, 2025, 07:35 PM UTC
We are observing stability being restored for Document Generation. We are continuing to monitor it closely to confirm full service stability. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a resolved status.
- resolved Dec 04, 2025, 09:26 PM UTC
Document Generation functionality has been fully restored and is operating normally. The incident is now resolved.
- postmortem Dec 04, 2025, 09:31 PM UTC
On Thursday, December 4th 2025 at 8:08am, users experienced delays in Document Generation requests to download generated documents or attach them to rows. The issue occurred due to increased load on the back end service following a recent code change and was resolved by 11:30am Pacific Time.