SparkPost: Elevated 5xx API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only)
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- resolved
The issue was identified and resolved. A rogue process was impacting an underlying database. This process has been disabled until it can be reviewed and corrected.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by SparkPost, started 2018-01-03 02:17 UTC, resolved after 2.6 h, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Elevated 5xx API error rates and increased latency for some SparkPost and SparkPost Enterprise customers (US hosted only)
- Vendor
- SparkPost
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/sparkpost/incidents/t9yg8f380fxv
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