# SparkPost: Elevated SMTP API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only)

> SparkPost status incident “Elevated SMTP API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only)” on 2018-08-21: impact minor (vendor’s label), 1.6 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs
Last updated: 2018-08-21T13:19:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2018-08-21 11:40 UTC · Resolved: 2018-08-21 13:19 UTC · Duration: 1.6 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.sparkpost.com/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs](https://status.sparkpost.com/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs)
- [Company: SparkPost](https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2018-08-21 13:19 UTC: This incident has been resolved.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by SparkPost, started 2018-08-21 11:40 UTC, resolved after 1.6 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs
- Citation: SparkPost, “Elevated SMTP API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only)” (2018-08-21 11:40 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[SparkPost: Elevated SMTP API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only) (2018-08-21)](https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost/incidents/pxc4bnmd9txs)`


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