SendGrid maintenance, November 2026: United States SMS Carrier Partner Maintenance

SendGrid is reporting planned maintenance: United States SMS Carrier Partner Maintenance. It is still open.

Degraded

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

What happened

Started
Status
scheduled
Duration
10.9 hours so far
Impact
maintenance
Affected
SMS Short Code, North America
Window
11 Nov 2026, 6:00 pm to 11 Nov 2026, 10:00 pm
  1. Scheduled
  2. In progressnot yet
  3. Completednot yet

Why it happened

SendGrid has not given a cause yet. We never guess one.

This incident on the SendGrid status page

Timeline

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

  1. scheduled

    Our SMS carrier partner in the United States is conducting a planned maintenance from 10 November 2026 at 23:00 PST until 11 November 2026 at 03:00 PST. During the maintenance window, there could be intermittent delays delivering SMS to and from handsets via subset of United States short codes.

What this means for a business

  • Pause scheduled campaigns if you can; otherwise they queue and send when it is back.
  • Reply to urgent customers from your normal mailbox.
  • Form leads and chats are usually kept and delivered late, not lost.

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