- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- SMTP Delivery - USA
- Regions
- eu, us
What to do
Check whether you use SparkPost SMTP Delivery - USA in eu, us. Check your stack
Drop a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 4h 5m it lasted.
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Updates from SparkPost 3
- investigating
We are investigating an increase in delivery latency for a small percentage of outbound messages. (NOTE: This does not impact our customers hosted in the EU.)
provider
- monitoring
Latencies are now back to normal. We will continue monitoring, but do not expect any further deviation.
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- resolved
Latencies have remained normal since the last update. We are confident the situation is fully resolved.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-61d6f52a56
Is SparkPost still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2025-05-18 19:03 UTC. For SparkPost's live state, see https://down.guide/providers/sparkpost.
How long did it last?
4h 5m, from 2025-05-18 14:58 UTC to 2025-05-18 19:03 UTC, by the times SparkPost posted.
What was affected?
SparkPost named SMTP Delivery - USA in eu, us.
What caused it?
SparkPost hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
SparkPost's official status page, https://status.sparkpost.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.