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CircleCI change history

6Major incident
When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Delay in data appearing in UI and API
CircleCI reported a major degradation starting 2026-10-09 11:33 UTC, resolved 2026-10-10 02:08 UTC after 14 h 35 min. Customers experienced pipeline, workflow and job delays and failures, delayed UI/API data, and disrupted webhooks and Slack/email notifications; retriggering could create duplicate pipelines. The vendor identified a delay in its data infrastructure.
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Major incident: Delays in pipelines, workflows, UI data, and notifications
CircleCI reported a major incident starting 2026-10-06 16:00 UTC, lasting 5 h 18 min and resolved at 21:18 UTC. Customers experienced pipeline failures, periods when no workflows or jobs started, and delayed UI data, notifications, webhooks, and commit status updates; workflows and jobs were starting normally by 20:31 UTC, and customers whose jobs failed to start were advised to rerun them.
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Major incident: GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality
CircleCI reported major degradation affecting pipeline triggering and login, with possible failures reporting running jobs’ status to GitHub Pull Requests. The incident ran from 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC to 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC, lasting 5 h 1 min. CircleCI attributed the disruption to a GitHub incident and resolved it after GitHub’s APIs appeared to be operating normally.
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Critical incident: 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.
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Major incident: Delays starting Docker jobs
CircleCI reported a major Docker Jobs incident from 2026-06-23 18:34 UTC to 2026-06-23 19:58 UTC (1 h 23 min), with jobs queuing or stuck in "preparing environment." A fix restored normal starts while the backlog cleared; the postmortem identified a single Docker job cluster operating below expected performance.
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Major incident: macOS jobs failing to start
CircleCI reported a major incident preventing macOS jobs across all resource classes from starting, from 2026-06-07 04:20 UTC to 2026-06-07 04:44 UTC (24 min). A fix restored normal job starts; customers whose jobs failed to start during the incident may rerun them.
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