SparkPost incident

Longer than expected delays

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

SparkPost experienced a minor incident on December 11, 2025 affecting SMTP Delivery - USA and SMTP Delivery - EUROPE, lasting 1h 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 11, 2025, 04:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 11, 2025, 06:34 PM UTC
Duration
1h 59m
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 11, 2025, 04:34 PM UTC

Affected components

SMTP Delivery - USASMTP Delivery - EUROPE

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 11, 2025, 04:34 PM UTC

    Messages that have failed initial delivery and are in a delayed state are taking longer than expected to resend. Only messages injected via SMTP and in a delayed state are effected.

  2. identified Dec 11, 2025, 04:57 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and the fix has been deployed.

  3. monitoring Dec 11, 2025, 05:00 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Dec 11, 2025, 06:34 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.