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Mailchimp Outage History

Every past Mailchimp outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 145 Mailchimp outages since July 2021. The 27 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major May 14, 2026

May 2026: Contact count discrepancies

Detected May 14, 2026 12:01 PM EDT · Resolved May 14, 2026 3:30 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Mailchimp experienced contact count discrepancies affecting the Audience Analytics and Home Page displays for 3.5 hours. The actual contact table data remained accurate and unaffected during the incident. The engineering team resolved the display issue that was causing incorrect contact counts to appear in the analytics and dashboard views.

Minor May 8, 2026

May 2026: Campaigns Stuck Sending

Detected May 8, 2026 2:21 PM EDT · Resolved May 8, 2026 4:01 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Mailchimp experienced an issue where email campaigns became stuck in a sending state and were unable to complete delivery. This minor incident affected users' ability to successfully send their email campaigns to recipients. The engineering team resolved the problem after 1.7 hours of investigation and remediation work.

Minor May 1, 2026

May 2026: Issues with Segmenting

Detected May 1, 2026 11:03 AM EDT · Resolved May 1, 2026 1:03 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Mailchimp experienced issues with the Segmenting feature in the Audience Segment builder and Email Campaign/SMS builders for 2 hours. The problem also affected scheduled campaigns. The engineering team investigated and resolved the segmentation functionality issues.

Minor April 30, 2026

April 2026: Exports stuck and/or failing to complete

Detected Apr 30, 2026 11:20 AM EDT · Resolved May 1, 2026 11:51 AM EDT · Duration 1 day

Mailchimp experienced an issue where data exports were getting stuck or failing to complete entirely. This affected users' ability to export their data from the platform. The engineering team resolved the issue after 24.5 hours of investigation and remediation work.

Minor April 28, 2026

April 2026: Segmenting and Campaign Builder Checklist Issues

Detected Apr 28, 2026 11:52 AM EDT · Resolved May 1, 2026 1:07 PM EDT · Duration 3 days

Mailchimp experienced issues with their Segmenting feature that caused campaign sending to fail, along with problems in the Campaign Builder Checklist functionality. The service disruption lasted approximately 73 hours and was classified as a minor incident. Mailchimp identified the root cause and worked on implementing a resolution during this period.

Major April 27, 2026

April 2026: eepUrl Shortening Issues

Detected Apr 27, 2026 11:56 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 27, 2026 1:56 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Mailchimp experienced a major incident with their eepUrl shortening service that lasted 2 hours. The issue prevented shortened links from working properly, affecting email campaign link functionality. The engineering team resolved the problem, with users advised to use full campaign links as a workaround during the outage.

Minor April 24, 2026

April 2026: Campaigns Stuck Sending

Detected Apr 24, 2026 12:05 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 24, 2026 2:05 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Mailchimp experienced an issue where email campaigns became stuck in a partially sending state, preventing complete delivery to subscriber lists. The engineering team investigated and resolved the problem after 2 hours. This was classified as a minor service disruption affecting campaign delivery functionality.

Major April 14, 2026

April 2026: Campaigns not sending as expected

Detected Apr 14, 2026 2:16 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 15, 2026 8:50 AM EDT · Duration about 19 hours

Mailchimp experienced a major incident where email campaigns appeared to be sending in the system but were not actually being delivered to recipients. The issue affected campaign delivery functionality for 18.6 hours. The engineering team investigated and resolved the problem that was preventing campaigns from sending despite showing a sending status.

Major March 25, 2026

March 2026: Campaigns stuck in Preparing/Sending

Detected Mar 25, 2026 11:44 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 25, 2026 12:40 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Mailchimp experienced a major service incident where email campaigns became stuck in "Preparing" or "Sending" status, preventing users from successfully sending their email campaigns. The issue affected campaign delivery functionality across the platform. The incident was resolved by the engineering team after 56 minutes.

Minor March 2, 2026

March 2026: Application Maintenance

Detected Mar 2, 2026 12:09 PM EST · Resolved Mar 4, 2026 9:36 AM EST · Duration 2 days

Mailchimp performed application maintenance that caused slower loading times for users. The maintenance was actively monitored by engineers and lasted 2.7 hours. Performance was fully restored once the maintenance was completed.