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Workflows: Email sending currently delayed

Degraded Performance
Sep 9, 2026·Workflows (US Cloud 🇺🇸), Workflows (US Cloud 🇺🇸)

Resolved

We've caught up on all Workflow emails.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 17:16 UTC

Monitoring

We're still working through the backlog of emails - we're monitoring and will update this incident once we've caught up. You can monitor progress of individual workflows from the 'invocations' tab of the workflow in PostHog - delayed runs will transition from 'Running' to 'Succeeded' once complete.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 16:21 UTC(55 minutes earlier)

Resolved

Whilst the temporary fix worked we have meanwhile taken action and hardened our systems so this kind of poison pill problem can't happen again. The email queue will drain and some emails will arrive later but no data was lost.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 15:58 UTC(1 hour earlier)

Monitoring

We fixed the underlying issue and email sending is proceeding normally again. Emails will be delayed. We are monitoring the fix and taking action to avoid a poison pill like this to happen again.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 15:12 UTC(2 hours earlier)

Identified

We found the culprit which turns out to be a poison pill entry in our email queue which blocks the queue from proceeding. We are taking steps to resolve this issue.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 15:01 UTC(2 hours earlier)

Investigating

Email sending is currently delayed. We are investigating the issue. No data is lost.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026, 14:42 UTC(2 hours earlier)