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Buildkite: Major incident: Increased latency and error rates

Summary

Buildkite reported a major degradation affecting the REST API’s builds create API for a subset of tenants, with increased latency and error rates. It started at 2026-06-18 08:05 UTC and lasted 1 h 37 min, resolving at 2026-06-18 09:43 UTC; a fix was deployed and full recovery confirmed.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 64%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Increased latency and error rates
AddedImpact#2
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AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: REST API, REST API - REST API
AddedUpdateidentified#7
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After: We're seeing increased latency and error rates for a subset of our customers. We're currently investigating and will provide status updates as they become available.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: We've identified the issue, we're continuing working on rolling out a fix. Impact is restricted to the builds create API for a subset of tenants.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#9
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After: A fix has been deployed, services are recovering.
AddedUpdateresolved#10
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After: We have seen a full recovery of services.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Increased latency and error rates (this change)
Buildkite reported a major degradation affecting the REST API’s builds create API for a subset of tenants, with increased latency and error rates. It started at 2026-06-18 08:05 UTC and lasted 1 h 37 min, resolving at 2026-06-18 09:43 UTC; a fix was deployed and full recovery confirmed.
Major incident

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