SparkPost (Bird) outage on Jul 24, 2026

What happened

SparkPost (Bird) reported a major outage starting Jul 24, 2026, 11:14 UTC, affecting Transmissions API - USA, SMTP API - USA, SMTP Delivery - USA. It was marked resolved at Jul 24, 2026, 18:44 UTC.

• The incident lasted 7h 30m from first report to resolution.
• SparkPost (Bird) had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 9 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from SparkPost (Bird)

This incident has been resolved.

Read SparkPost (Bird)'s official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of SparkPost (Bird) started after this incident, so this report is based on SparkPost (Bird)'s status page.

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