SendGrid maintenance, October 2026: Sendgrid Maintenance Impacting Delivery and Account Configuration

SendGrid is reporting planned maintenance: Sendgrid Maintenance Impacting Delivery and Account Configuration. It is still open.

Degraded

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

What happened

Started
Status
in progress
Duration
11 days so far
Impact
maintenance
Affected
API v3, SMTP, API v2, SendGrid Marketing Campaigns, SendGrid Email Activity
Window
29 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm to 29 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
  1. Scheduled
  2. In progress
  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. in progress

    Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

  2. scheduled

    Maintenance will begin as scheduled in 60 minutes.

  3. scheduled

    This maintenance has been rescheduled. We are upgrading our infrastructure on October 28 2026, from 21:00 to 22:30 PDT to enhance system stability and scalability. During this window customers may experience delays impacting the following functionalities: - Email delivery for new sign-ups and upgraded accounts - Account configuration and settings updates - Processing of group unsubscribes - Dedicated IP and IP pool changes System functionality will resume normally once maintenance concludes. Thank you for your patience.

  4. scheduled

    We are upgrading our infrastructure on October 28 2026, from 12:30 to 14:00 PDT to enhance system stability and scalability. During this window customers may experience delays impacting the following functionalities: - Email delivery for new sign-ups and upgraded accounts - Account configuration and settings updates - Processing of group unsubscribes - Dedicated IP and IP pool changes System functionality will resume normally once maintenance concludes. Thank you for your patience.

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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