# CircleCI: GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC · Resolved: 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC · Duration: 5.0 h
- Updates: 7
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/mk4lvmlx939f](https://stspg.io/mk4lvmlx939f)
- [Company: CircleCI](https://rewindex.com/company/circleci.md)

## 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. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC: 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.
- **identified** 2026-08-17 14:25 UTC: 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.
- **identified** 2026-08-17 15:49 UTC: 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.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-17 16:22 UTC: We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-17 17:01 UTC: GitHub API error rates and latencies appear to have recovered. We will continue to monitor.
- **monitoring** 2026-08-17 17:23 UTC: 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.
- **resolved** 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC: GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC: [Major incident: GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality](https://rewindex.com/change/if07a92160c0000.md)


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