Resend outage: Increased API and SMTP Error Rates

1. resolvedAug 8, 2026, 22:29 UTC

   Our team has mitigated the issue and this incident is fully resolved. All services are operational.

2. identifiedAug 8, 2026, 19:50 UTC

   Our team has identified an issue causing intermittent error rates across our APIs and SMTP services. The impact is currently affecting email sending requests, which may result in intermittent 500 errors for some customers. We are actively working on mitigation and will provide further updates as we make progress.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Resend's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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