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SendGrid outage on May 3 — 18h 15m disruption

May 3, 02:03 AM → May 3, 08:19 PM · 18h 15m · medium

An incident affecting SendGrid services was detected on May 3, 2026, at 02:03 UTC. This disruption was initially identified through user reports. Services were fully restored by 20:19 UTC on the same day.

Peak reports
15
in 15 min
Total reports
314
during the incident
Duration
18h 15m
tracked by PulseWatch

Impact

During the incident, users reported issues primarily categorized as 'Website down'. A total of 314 user reports were received over the 18-hour 15-minute period. There were no specific regional concentrations identified among the reported issues. The disruption affected users attempting to access or utilize SendGrid services.

Top reported issues

  • Website down314

Incident timeline

  1. May 3, 02:03 AM

    PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)

  2. May 3, 03:45 AM

    Peak of 4 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)

  3. May 3, 01:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  4. May 3, 02:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  5. May 3, 02:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  6. May 3, 02:23 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  7. May 3, 02:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  8. May 3, 02:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  9. May 3, 02:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  10. May 3, 02:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  11. May 3, 02:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  12. May 3, 03:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  13. May 3, 03:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  14. May 3, 03:23 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  15. May 3, 03:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  16. May 3, 03:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  17. May 3, 03:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  18. May 3, 03:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  19. May 3, 03:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  20. May 3, 04:09 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  21. May 3, 04:14 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  22. May 3, 04:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  23. May 3, 04:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  24. May 3, 04:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  25. May 3, 04:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  26. May 3, 04:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  27. May 3, 05:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  28. May 3, 05:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  29. May 3, 05:23 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  30. May 3, 05:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  31. May 3, 05:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  32. May 3, 05:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  33. May 3, 05:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  34. May 3, 05:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  35. May 3, 06:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  36. May 3, 06:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  37. May 3, 06:23 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  38. May 3, 06:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  39. May 3, 06:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  40. May 3, 06:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  41. May 3, 06:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  42. May 3, 06:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  43. May 3, 07:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  44. May 3, 07:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  45. May 3, 07:23 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  46. May 3, 07:28 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  47. May 3, 07:38 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  48. May 3, 07:43 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  49. May 3, 07:53 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  50. May 3, 07:58 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  51. May 3, 08:08 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  52. May 3, 08:13 PM

    Status updated: possible issue

  53. May 3, 08:19 PM

    Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved

Official updates

  1. May 3, 02:03 AM

    SendGrid status page acknowledged the incident.

    View official source
Draft auto-generated by PulseWatch when the incident resolved. Based on aggregated user-report signals and the sources listed above.
This postmortem was auto-generated from PulseWatch's record of the incident. · Model: gemini-2.5-flash