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CircleCI: GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (5.0 h)7 updatesSource: stspg.io (opens in new tab)
Summary

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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Timeline of updates

  1. identified

    GitHub has reported an incident that is impacting CircleCI pipeline triggering and logging in: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx Jobs that are in flights are running, but status reporting to GitHub Pull Requests may fail.

  2. identified

    We are continuing to see high error rates on GitHub APIs and reduced webhook traffic. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.

  3. identified

    We are continuing to see high error rates on GitHub's APIs and reduced webhook traffic. Customers using GitHub as their VCS may experience impact to their CircleCI platform experience as a result. This is directly linked to the incident GitHub is experiencing: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  4. monitoring

    We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.

  5. monitoring

    GitHub API error rates and latencies appear to have recovered. We will continue to monitor.

  6. monitoring

    Some of GitHub's APIs are still degraded, resulting in a small number of failures relating to commit status updates and hook processing. We will continue to do our best to mitigate these effects.

  7. resolved

    GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

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