Alert and notification delivery delays
ResolvedPartial outage · affected Alerting & notifications · 2026-07-22 06:00 UTC → 2026-07-23 18:55 UTC (36.9 hours)
No customer data was lost and no request failed. The queue those tasks share is also used for background work such as detections, digests and in-app notifications, so that work ran behind while the backlog drained.
We cleared the backlog and shipped a fix that skips saving a record when nothing about it has changed, which stops the notifications being queued at all.
The records themselves were Microsoft general-reference threat-intelligence articles, identical for every tenant, rather than alerts about your environment. They carried no signal specific to your data, so we have stopped ingesting that source entirely.