Changes / ActiveCampaign / Transactional Email Failures

ActiveCampaign: Critical incident: Transactional Email Failures

Summary

ActiveCampaign reported a critical outage preventing transactional emails from sending, starting at 2026-09-28 15:05 UTC and resolved at 2026-09-28 18:55 UTC, lasting 3 h 50 min. Backlogged messages began sending at 15:16 UTC, and a fix was implemented at 15:22 UTC.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 97%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Transactional Email Failures
AddedImpact#2
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After: critical
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-09-28 15:05 UTC
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After: 2026-09-28 18:55 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Email, Message Sending Availability - Email
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: Transactional email is currently failing to send. Engineering is investigating the root cause now and will report updates every 20 minutes.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: The issue has been identified and the backlogged messages have started to send. Engineering is working to expedite the catch up.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#10
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After: The backlogged messages are rapidly catching up. We expect full resolution within 20 minutes.
AddedUpdateresolved#11
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Transactional Email Failures (this change)
ActiveCampaign reported a critical outage preventing transactional emails from sending, starting at 2026-09-28 15:05 UTC and resolved at 2026-09-28 18:55 UTC, lasting 3 h 50 min. Backlogged messages began sending at 15:16 UTC, and a fix was implemented at 15:22 UTC.
Major incident

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