Wordsmith incident
Some customers experiencing issues with starting chat
Wordsmith is currently experiencing a major incident affecting API and Email and 1 more component, which began 8h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
APIEmailWebsite
Update timeline
- investigating May 08, 2026, 06:21 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are seeing some customers having issues starting new chat, we are investigating root cause Affected components Website (Degraded performance) API (Degraded performance) Email (Degraded performance)
- monitoring May 08, 2026, 06:34 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring The issue has been identified and resolved, the system is back to normal, we are monitoring recovery. Affected components Website (Operational) API (Operational) Email (Operational)