Resend outage: Elevated error rates on email sending, API, and dashboard

1. resolvedJul 29, 2026, 21:14 UTC

   Between 20:15 and 20:16 UTC, a brief database disruption caused elevated error rates for approximately 45 seconds. During this window, requests to the Resend API, SMTP relay, and dashboard may have returned 5xx errors or timed out. The issue resolved automatically at 20:16 UTC and all services have been operating normally since. Any request that failed during this window can be safely retried. Emails that had already been accepted before the disruption were not lost. They were delivered normally. Broadcasts were not affected.

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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Resend reported 23 incidents in the last 90 days, 6 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 43 min. See Resend's uptime and incident history