CircleCI change history: Outage impacting web experience and pipelines starting

CircleCI reported a critical outage affecting UI access/login and pipeline starts, including API-triggered pipelines, starting 2026-07-02 15:25 UTC and resolving 2026-07-02 16:44 UTC (1 h 18 min). Increased system load caused API request failures; mitigation restored service, and CircleCI advised resubmitting failed pipelines.