SendGrid outage, November 2026: Delayed Email Validation History

SendGrid reported and resolved an incident: Delayed Email Validation History. It lasted 2.8 hours.

Resolved

From SendGrid's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2.8 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
Logs
  1. Investigating
  2. Identified
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

SendGrid has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

The delays have been resolved and Email Validation history is operating normally at this time. This incident has been resolved.

SendGrid's closing update

This incident on the SendGrid status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From SendGrid's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    Our monitoring systems have detected a potential issue with Email history displaying in UI. Our engineers have been alerted and are investigating. We will provide an update when we have more details.

  2. investigating

    Starting around 11:30 on 11/04/2026, our engineers began investigating an issue with the Email validation history and statistics shown in the SendGrid UI. Users may not see recent email validation results or updated totals in their validation history. Results validated before the issue began are still visible. This does not impact mail send. We will provide another update in 1 hour or as soon as more information becomes available.

  3. identified

    Our engineers have identified the issue and are working toward a fix for the delayed Email Validation history issue. We will provide another update in 1 hour or as soon as more information becomes available.

  4. identified

    Our engineers have identified the issue and are continuing to work toward a fix for the delayed Email Validation history issue. We will provide another update in 2 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.

  5. monitoring

    Email Validation history in the SendGrid UI is now operating normally. We will continue to monitor for system stability. We'll provide another update in 30 minutes or as soon as more information becomes available.

  6. resolved

    The delays have been resolved and Email Validation history is operating normally at this time. This incident has been resolved.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 2.8 hours.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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