Buildkite incident
Jobs not starting on hosted agents and agent-stack-k8s
Buildkite experienced a major incident on May 7, 2026 affecting Agent API, lasting 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating May 07, 2026, 08:48 AM UTC
We've spotted that something has gone wrong. We're currently investigating the issue with new builds not starting.
- investigating May 07, 2026, 09:09 AM UTC
We've identified issue with job acquiring endpoint. We're rolling back now. We'll provide next update in ~20 minutes.
- identified May 07, 2026, 09:24 AM UTC
We're currently seeing recovery at 50% rate. We'll provide next update soon.
- resolved May 07, 2026, 09:37 AM UTC
We've reverted a change that caused stale environment variables provided to acquire job used in Hosted Agents, agent-stack-k8s and other agent implementations using acquire job.
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