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Smartsheet: Major incident: Form Submissions issue

Summary

Smartsheet reported a major outage affecting form submissions reaching sheets and some API requests, starting 2026-03-03 17:16 UTC and resolved 2026-03-04 23:42 UTC (30 h 25 min). The vendor cited a code regression, rolled back deployment, and scaled queues; customers were told not to resubmit failed forms because manual replay was planned.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 65%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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After: We've investigating an issue with Form Submissions propagating to the sheet. Our team is fully engaged in addressing the situation. We will provide frequent updates until we reach a monitoring status.
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After: The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
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After: This issue has been identified and a fix has been implemented for new form submissions. For previous form submissions that failed in this window, a manual replay will be ran. Please do not re-submit these form submissions.
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After: A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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After: Forms Submissions has been fully restored and is operating normally. The incident is now resolved.
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After: On 4:47PM Pacific Standard Time, March 2nd, 2026, a code regression impacted a subset of Form Submissions to propagate to the underlying sheets and some API requests. Service was restored by rolling back to the last known stable deployment. A manual scale up was applied to meet the demands of the queues. Issue was successfully resolved by 9:53AM PST March 3rd, 2026. All previously failed form submissions were successfully replayed by 12:20PM PST, March 4th, 2026.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Form Submissions issue (this change)
Smartsheet reported a major outage affecting form submissions reaching sheets and some API requests, starting 2026-03-03 17:16 UTC and resolved 2026-03-04 23:42 UTC (30 h 25 min). The vendor cited a code regression, rolled back deployment, and scaled queues; customers were told not to resubmit failed forms because manual replay was planned.
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