# Outbound email latency for non-EU Bird (Sparkpost) customers

- Provider: [Braze](https://down.guide/braze)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 25m
- started 2026-02-24 19:34 UTC
- Email
- eu, us
- id: DWN-3c9b566602
- Official page: https://stspg.io/k96nwrlfpd8h

## Updates from Braze
### 2026-02-24 19:34 UTC: investigating
Braze Engineers detected an increase in latency on email outbound messaging for customers on Bird (Sparkpost) non-EU Braze clusters. This latency build up started at 13:53 ET. Braze has engaged Sparkpost, who have declared an incident and are actively investigating, you can follow their Statuspage for updates, and we'll update here in 30 minutes, or when we learn more.
https://status.sparkpost.com/incidents/ndjn00g5vwm3

### 2026-02-24 19:42 UTC: investigating
As of 14:34 ET, Sparkpost has identified the root cause to be a networking issue on their US cluster. We are monitoring performance for improvement.

### 2026-02-24 20:00 UTC: resolved
As of 14:41 ET, Sparkpost has declared this incident resolved after implementing a fix. Braze Engineers have confirmed that real time outbound email latency has returned within normal operational bounds as of 14:34 ET. Any messages that failed during this window, were automatically retried.
This incident is considered resolved.

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