Smartsheet incident

Sheets, Reports, and Workflow Services Are Impacted

Resolved after 3 hours 28 minutes, affecting In App Workflows and Sheets and 1 more, on August 11, 2026.

postmortem Aug 19, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

On August 11 from approximately 7:00 AM to 4:20 PM PDT, some customers experienced timeouts or failures when loading sheets and reports, as well as automation workflow failures that caused some workflows to disable due to elevated error rates. The incident was caused by a database query-routing issue related to the conditions behind recent service disruptions, where certain reads were routed to primary write servers and an edge case involving sheet synchronization amplified the resulting load. We stabilized the service by 3:20 PM PDT and confirmed full recovery by 4:20 PM PDT after scaling affected services and failing over database servers to increase capacity. We identified and deployed a permanent code fix to correct the query routing. We are also improving monitoring and safeguards to detect and mitigate similar conditions earlier.

Started
Aug 11, 2026, 07:51 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 11, 2026, 11:20 PM UTC
Duration
3h 28m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 11, 2026, 07:51 PM UTC

Affected components

In App WorkflowsSheetsReports

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 11, 2026, 07:51 PM UTC

    We are investigating issues with Sheets, Reports, and Workflows. Our team is fully engaged in addressing the situation. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.

  2. investigating Aug 11, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC

    We're continuing to look into this and are working toward a mitigation that we expect to have in place soon.

  3. monitoring Aug 11, 2026, 09:02 PM UTC

    A mitigation is now in place, and we're seeing a strong recovery. We'll continue monitoring closely to confirm the issue is fully resolved.

  4. resolved Aug 11, 2026, 11:20 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  5. postmortem Aug 19, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

    On August 11 from approximately 7:00 AM to 4:20 PM PDT, some customers experienced timeouts or failures when loading sheets and reports, as well as automation workflow failures that caused some workflows to disable due to elevated error rates. The incident was caused by a database query-routing issue related to the conditions behind recent service disruptions, where certain reads were routed to primary write servers and an edge case involving sheet synchronization amplified the resulting load. We stabilized the service by 3:20 PM PDT and confirmed full recovery by 4:20 PM PDT after scaling affected services and failing over database servers to increase capacity. We identified and deployed a permanent code fix to correct the query routing. We are also improving monitoring and safeguards to detect and mitigate similar conditions earlier.

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