Fivetran incident

Fivetran: SharePoint and Microsoft Lists connections are failing with error "Authentication failed: The client secret or certificate has expired"

Resolved after 13 hours 46 minutes, affecting Microsoft Lists and SharePoint, on April 28, 2026.

resolved Apr 28, 2026, 02:57 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved. We have observed that instance rates are returning to normal levels and affected connectors are syncing successfully. Incident Summary Description: We identified an issue for SharePoint and Microsoft Lists connections which resulted in syncs failing with a "Authentication failed: The client secret or certificate has expired" error. Timeline: This issue began on 2026-04-27 at 22:20:00 UTC and was resolved on 2026-04-28 at 09:30:00 UTC Cause: The issue occurred due to Microsoft OAuth app credentials expiration.Due to this internal workflows failed to rotate the secret keys. Resolution: A fix has been implemented to update these secrets.

Started
Apr 28, 2026, 01:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 28, 2026, 02:57 PM UTC
Duration
13h 46m
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 28, 2026, 01:10 AM UTC

Affected components

Microsoft ListsSharePoint

Update timeline

  1. identified Apr 28, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and we are working to resolve it.

  2. identified Apr 28, 2026, 09:51 AM UTC

    Fivetran's OAuth app secret key has expired, and the team is working on creating new secret key credentials to fix the issue.

  3. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 09:52 AM UTC

    A new secret key credential has been created to resolve the issue. Syncs are now recovering, and we are monitoring the results.

  4. monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

    We have updated all the regions with the new secret keys and will continue to monitor the connections.

  5. resolved Apr 28, 2026, 02:57 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. We have observed that instance rates are returning to normal levels and affected connectors are syncing successfully. Incident Summary Description: We identified an issue for SharePoint and Microsoft Lists connections which resulted in syncs failing with a "Authentication failed: The client secret or certificate has expired" error. Timeline: This issue began on 2026-04-27 at 22:20:00 UTC and was resolved on 2026-04-28 at 09:30:00 UTC Cause: The issue occurred due to Microsoft OAuth app credentials expiration.Due to this internal workflows failed to rotate the secret keys. Resolution: A fix has been implemented to update these secrets.

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