Email sending via SendGrid APIs very slow

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Hi,

I’ve been running and measuring the following commands using SendGrid APIs email setting and various batch/limit sizes, and local DB.

  • php bin/console mautic:broadcasts:send --channel=email --limit=800 --batch-size=800 --no-interaction --no-ansi
    php bin/console mautic:emails:send --message-limit=800 --no-interaction --no-ansi

The results are less than impressive considering we have 100K emails to send:
29 minutes: mautic:broadcasts:send --channel=email --limit=800 --batch-size=800, mautic:emails:send --message-limit=800
3 minutes: mautic:broadcasts:send --channel=email --limit=100 --batch-size=100, mautic:emails:send --message-limit=100

800 emails with Mailhog local smtp took 47 seconds. MailGun is faster than SendGrid but also not spectacular.

Does Mautic use SendGrid batch apis or sends them 1 by 1? It appears it’s 1 by 1 based on how the emails were arriving (each message had a separate id and a time stamp). What SendGrid endpoint is being called by Mautic? Where in source code can I find the SendGrid api functionality for closer examination?

We have 8GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores. Are others also experiencing similar performance? We were able to get to 10 emails per second with SES API.

Thanks,

  • Yev