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🟠 SendGrid's Marketing Campaigns and API had a brief existential crisis, returning 500 errors like a teenager who forgot their homework was due. Single Sends, Automations, and contact uploads all decided to ghost users simultaneously. The good news: actual email delivery kept working, so at least the mail got through even if everything else was on fire. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 03, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Retroactive Incident - Marketing Campaigns and API failures

// Status page says

Feb 3 , 10:49 PST Resolved - On February 3, 2026 between 10:08 and 10:26AM PT, our engineering team investigated a service disruption that impacted Marketing Campaigns creating Single Sends, Automations, Contact uploads, and API configuration requests. Customers would have experienced 500 errors. Mail send was not impacted. Our engineering teams have identified the root cause and restored full functionality. No mail was lost. Services

πŸ”— Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.sendgrid.com/incidents/63ss4wk9n50t

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