Circle CI Outage History

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Circle CI had 92 outages in the last 2 years totaling 75h 48m of downtime — averaging 3.8 incidents per month.

There were 92 Circle CI outages since October 7, 2025 totaling 75h 48m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.circleci.com

Minor October 1, 2026

Delays starting Gen 2 Docker Jobs

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 01, 2026, 09:06 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 01, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC
Duration
1h 39m
Affected: Docker Jobs
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Oct 01, 2026, 09:06 AM UTC

    Customers may experience delays in starting Docker Gen 2 Jobs. We are working to increase the throughput of the system to accomodate this.

  2. identified Oct 01, 2026, 09:47 AM UTC

    We have identified the root cause and we are actively working on a fix. Thank you for your patience.

  3. identified Oct 01, 2026, 10:13 AM UTC

    A fix has been rolled out and we're starting to observe recovery.

  4. monitoring Oct 01, 2026, 10:24 AM UTC

    We're seeing queue times return to normal levels, and continue to monitor.

  5. resolved Oct 01, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice September 23, 2026

Delays in processing new signups and plan changes

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 23, 2026, 06:13 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 23, 2026, 08:06 PM UTC
Duration
1h 52m
Affected: Billing & Account
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Sep 23, 2026, 06:13 PM UTC

    Customers may experience delays in new signups and plan changes being reflected in their account.

  2. resolved Sep 23, 2026, 08:06 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 21, 2026

Delays starting Linux Machine jobs

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 21, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 21, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC
Duration
47m
Affected: Machine Jobs
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Sep 21, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC

    Customers may experience delays in starting jobs on Linux Machine. We are investigating.

  2. monitoring Sep 21, 2026, 04:48 PM UTC

    Task wait times for Linux Machine are returning to normal.

  3. resolved Sep 21, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 16, 2026

Customers may experience delays in UI updates

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 16, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 16, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Duration
4h 34m
Affected: CircleCI APICircleCI UI
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Sep 16, 2026, 02:55 PM UTC

    We are investigating a delay in pipeline data becoming available. Pipelines are still running, but data about them may be delayed in the UI or API.

  2. identified Sep 16, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working on a remediation. Thank you for your patience.

  3. identified Sep 16, 2026, 05:34 PM UTC

    Pipeline data is now available as normal, with the exception of test results, which may still be delayed. We are continuing to work on this, thank you for your patience.

  4. monitoring Sep 16, 2026, 06:22 PM UTC

    All pipeline data is now available as normal. We will continue to monitor recovery.

  5. resolved Sep 16, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 14, 2026

Increased wait times for macOS jobs

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 14, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 14, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC
Duration
1h
Affected: macOS Jobs
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Sep 14, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

    Due to increased network errors and latencies we are seeing increased wait times for macOS jobs. We are investigating this with our macOS hosting provider.

  2. investigating Sep 14, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

    Wait times for macOS jobs are reducing and we are continuing to investigate.

  3. monitoring Sep 14, 2026, 12:48 PM UTC

    Our macOS hosting provider has implemented a mitigation and we have seen improved latencies. We will continue to monitor.

  4. resolved Sep 14, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

    Wait times for macOS jobs are back to normal.

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Minor September 10, 2026

Issues loading pipelines for a small number of projects

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 10, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 10, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC
Duration
1m
Affected: CircleCI UI
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Sep 10, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC

    A small number of customers may see errors or be unable to load the pipelines page for projects with deprecated-config warnings, when using the classic pipelines view. Customers on the new pipelines view are not affected. We’ve identified the cause and deployed a fix.

  2. monitoring Sep 10, 2026, 08:25 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Sep 10, 2026, 08:26 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor September 4, 2026

macOS Job Delays

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 04, 2026, 03:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 04, 2026, 04:55 PM UTC
Duration
1h 39m
Affected: macOS Jobs
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Sep 04, 2026, 03:16 PM UTC

    We have detected network issues affecting our Mac infrastructure. We're investigating and will provide updates shortly. Customers may experience queuing during this time.

  2. identified Sep 04, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC

    We've identified the networking issue with our Mac infrastructure provider, and are working with them to resolve the issue. We're starting to see some recovery, but we expect customers may still see some queueing. We'll update again shortly.

  3. monitoring Sep 04, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC

    Our Mac infrastructure provider has applied a fix to this networking issue and we're seeing queue times return to normal. We're going to continue keeping an eye on things for a little while longer. We'll update again shortly.

  4. resolved Sep 04, 2026, 04:55 PM UTC

    We've seen no further impact to queue times and everything has returned to normal. We appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve and monitor this issue.

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Minor August 26, 2026

Intermittent errors when viewing plan usage UIs or calling plan usage APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 26, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 26, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC
Duration
26m
Affected: CircleCI APICircleCI UI
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Aug 26, 2026, 03:43 PM UTC

    Customers may experience intermittent errors when viewing plan usage UIs or calling plan usage APIs. We have identified the issue and we are actively working to mitigate these errors.

  2. monitoring Aug 26, 2026, 04:04 PM UTC

    We have mitigated the issue with plan usage APIs and the relevant pages in the UI are loading correctly.

  3. resolved Aug 26, 2026, 04:10 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 25, 2026

GitHub Login Disruption

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 25, 2026, 08:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 25, 2026, 08:00 PM UTC
Duration
—
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Aug 25, 2026, 11:20 PM UTC

    Between 19:49 UTC and 21:07 UTC on August 25, 2026, customers attempting to log in to CircleCI using GitHub were unable to sign in, and received an error from GitHub stating the callback URL was invalid. Customers who were already logged in were not affected. The issue has been resolved and GitHub login is functioning normally. We thank you for your patience while our team worked on implementing a fix.

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Minor August 17, 2026

Insight data is currently delayed

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 17, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 17, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC
Duration
30m
Affected: CircleCI Insights
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Aug 17, 2026, 09:06 PM UTC

    The cause of the issue has been identified and we are at work fixing it.

  2. monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Aug 17, 2026, 09:37 PM UTC

    Insights data is good once more. Thank you for your patience.

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Major August 17, 2026

GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 17, 2026, 02:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 17, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC
Duration
5h 1m
Timeline · 7 updates
  1. identified Aug 17, 2026, 02:04 PM 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.

  2. identified Aug 17, 2026, 02:25 PM 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.

  3. identified Aug 17, 2026, 03:49 PM 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.

  4. monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 04:22 PM UTC

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

  5. monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 05:01 PM UTC

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

  6. monitoring Aug 17, 2026, 05:23 PM 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.

  7. resolved Aug 17, 2026, 07:05 PM UTC

    GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

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Notice August 15, 2026

Delays starting jobs following planned maintenance

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 15, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 15, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
Duration
3h 1m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Aug 15, 2026, 01:58 PM UTC

    Following planned maintenance that ended at 13:00 UTC on August 15, some impact to job processing continued for approximately 30 minutes beyond the window we announced. Some customers continued to see delays in jobs starting, along with a small number of jobs failing with infrastructure errors, until approximately 13:30 UTC. This has been resolved and job processing has returned to normal. Customers whose jobs failed during this window may rerun affected jobs. We thank you for your patience while our team worked on implementing a fix and apologize for any inconvenience the extended impact may have caused.

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Minor August 12, 2026

GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHub

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 12, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 12, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC
Duration
9m
Affected: Pipelines & Workflows
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Aug 12, 2026, 04:33 PM UTC

    GitHub is currently experiencing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h). Customers who use GitHub as their VCS may experience impact to their CircleCI platform experience as a result, impacting checkout and workflows. We will provide another update as we have more information to share. Thank you for your patience.

  2. resolved Aug 12, 2026, 04:43 PM UTC

    The issue impacting customers who use GitHub as their VCS while GitHub was undergoing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h) has now been resolved. GitHub has resolved the underlying issue and the affected functionality has returned to normal. We thank you for your patience.

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Notice August 11, 2026

Delayed pipeline updates and pipeline processing failures

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 11, 2026, 05:42 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 11, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC
Duration
17m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Aug 11, 2026, 05:42 PM UTC

    Between 13:50 UTC and approximately 17:30 UTC on August 11, 2026, some customers experienced delays of up to an hour in pipeline status updates and in notification delivery. Between 16:40 UTC and 17:00 UTC within that same window, a small number of customers also saw newly created pipelines fail to process, appearing in an errored state in the UI and API. The issue has been resolved and all affected functionality has returned to normal. Customers whose pipelines errored during that window can retrigger them. We thank you for your patience while our team worked on implementing a fix.

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Notice August 6, 2026

Usage API data delayed for 8/5

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 06, 2026, 01:06 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 06, 2026, 07:54 PM UTC
Duration
6h 48m
Affected: CircleCI API
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Aug 06, 2026, 01:06 PM UTC

    Usage API data is delayed for 8/5/2026. All prior data remains available. We are investigating. Thank you for your patience.

  2. identified Aug 06, 2026, 03:06 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is in progress.

  3. monitoring Aug 06, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

    A fix is in place and is being monitored. Thanks for your patience.

  4. resolved Aug 06, 2026, 07:54 PM UTC

    The Usage API issue has been resolved. Data has been loaded for yesterday, 8/5/2026. We appreciate your patience.

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Minor August 5, 2026

Insights service data is lagging

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 05, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 05, 2026, 09:01 PM UTC
Duration
4h 2m
Affected: CircleCI Insights
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Aug 05, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC

    We are seeing an issue with Insights service where the data from the last 24 hours is lagging. We are investigating.

  2. investigating Aug 05, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate and will update as we know more.

  3. identified Aug 05, 2026, 06:25 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue, and are working with our upstream provider to resolve it now.

  4. resolved Aug 05, 2026, 09:01 PM UTC

    The upstream issue has been resolved, and the insights data from the last 24 hours has caught up. Thank you for your patience.

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Minor August 4, 2026

Increased Job Queue Times: Windows, Android, and GPU

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 04, 2026, 07:27 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 04, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC
Duration
4h 12m
Affected: Machine JobsWindows Jobs
Timeline · 7 updates
  1. investigating Aug 04, 2026, 07:27 PM UTC

    We are experiencing increased queue times for Windows, Android, and GPU jobs. Jobs will continue to be processed but may take longer than usual to start. Thank you for your patience while our engineers work to resolve this.

  2. monitoring Aug 04, 2026, 07:59 PM UTC

    We're starting to see queue times slowly recovering. We'll be monitoring this situation, we appreciate your patience.

  3. monitoring Aug 04, 2026, 08:33 PM UTC

    Queue times continue to gradually recover with our third-party infrastructure provider, though we've seen a slight uptick in the last 30 mins. We're keeping an eye on this and will keep you updated as things get back to normal. Again, thank you for your patience.

  4. monitoring Aug 04, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC

    Queue times for both Android and Windows jobs, which had been recovering, have started to rise again. This continues to be related to capacity constraints with our third-party infrastructure provider. We'll continue to monitor and provide updates at least every 30 minutes. We appreciate your patience.

  5. monitoring Aug 04, 2026, 09:46 PM UTC

    Queue times for both Android and Windows jobs continue to be volatile, with sharp swings up and down. This remains related to capacity constraints with our third-party infrastructure provider. Our team will continue to monitor and provide updates at least every 30 minutes. We appreciate your patience.

  6. monitoring Aug 04, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

    Queue times for both Android and Windows jobs, affected by capacity constraints with our third-party infrastructure provider, have been recovering significantly for the last half hour. We're continuing to monitor for a bit longer to confirm they return to normal levels. We appreciate your patience.

  7. resolved Aug 04, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

    Queue times for Android and Windows jobs have reduced significantly over the last hour. You may still notice brief, isolated queuing at times, but this is no longer at incident-level impact. This was related to capacity constraints with a third-party infrastructure provider. We thank you for your patience while we monitored the situation. If you have any issues, please reach out to our Support team.

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Minor July 22, 2026

Delays in starting jobs using the gen3 resource class

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2026, 07:57 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 23, 2026, 02:05 AM UTC
Duration
6h 8m
Affected: Machine Jobs
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 07:57 PM UTC

    We are investigating delays in starting jobs using the gen3 resource class.

  2. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 08:43 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate elevated wait times affecting customers using gen3 machine executors. Affected jobs may take longer than usual to start. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information to share.

  3. investigating Jul 22, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate elevated wait times affecting customers using gen3 machine executors. Affected jobs may take longer than usual to start. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information to share.

  4. investigating Jul 23, 2026, 12:31 AM UTC

    We have identified the issue and are working with our provider to resolve the availability of gen 3 resources. Gen 1 and Gen 2 are both fully operational.

  5. resolved Jul 23, 2026, 02:05 AM UTC

    Between 19:24 UTC on 22 July and 01:50 UTC on 23 July, customers using the gen3 preview machine (Linux VM) resource classes experienced delays and, in some cases, jobs failing to start. We have removed the gen3 resource classes while we address stability issues affecting them. Unfortunately, workflows that we were unable to provision compute capacity for during this period were cancelled. Affected customers should change their resource class from gen3 to gen2 and rerun those workflows. We thank you for your patience while our team worked to resolve this.

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Notice July 22, 2026

Errors loading app.circleci.com

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 22, 2026, 06:13 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 22, 2026, 06:27 AM UTC
Duration
13m
Affected: CircleCI UI
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Jul 22, 2026, 06:13 AM UTC

    A subset of customers may have experienced errors loading app.circleci.com starting at 03:18 UTC. A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring for full recovery. Thank you for your patience while our engineers confirm recovery. We will provide another update shortly.

  2. resolved Jul 22, 2026, 06:27 AM UTC

    Between 03:18 UTC and 06:04 UTC on July 22, 2026, a subset of customers were unable to access app.circleci.com. The issue has been resolved and access has returned to normal. We thank you for your patience while our team worked on implementing a fix.

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Minor July 16, 2026

Errors accessing CircleCI and delays starting pipelines and scheduled workflows

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 16, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 17, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC
Duration
1h 22m
Affected: Pipelines & Workflows
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 16, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

    We're investigating an issue where customers may see errors loading the CircleCI web app and signing in, along with pipelines and scheduled workflows failing to start or running late. This is related to an ongoing incident affecting GitHub. You can follow GitHub's status at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gxycch3076xk. Our engineers are actively investigating. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information to share.

  2. identified Jul 16, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC

    We are continuing to see high failure rates from GitHub APIs which are impacting login and workflow processing. We will continue to monitor the GitHub API for recovery.

  3. monitoring Jul 17, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

    What's happening The upstream incident affecting GitHub has been mitigated and is now being monitored on GitHub's side. You can follow GitHub's status at https://www.githubstatus.com/. What can you expect Access to the CircleCI web app, sign-in, and pipeline and workflow processing are returning to normal. You may still see intermittent errors or delayed scheduled pipelines and workflows as systems stabilize. Thank you for your patience while we monitor for full recovery.

  4. resolved Jul 17, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC

    An incident affecting GitHub's API caused CircleCI customers to experience errors loading the web app and signing in, along with pipelines and scheduled workflows failing to start or running late. GitHub has resolved the underlying incident (https://www.githubstatus.com/) and all affected functionality has returned to normal. Customers whose jobs or pipelines failed may rerun them. Scheduled pipelines and workflows that were missed during the incident will not run automatically and will need to be re-triggered. We thank you for your patience.

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Minor July 14, 2026

Delays starting jobs on Docker (Gen 2) resource classes

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 14, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 15, 2026, 12:32 AM UTC
Duration
1h 38m
Affected: Docker Jobs
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Jul 14, 2026, 10:54 PM UTC

    On July 13 between 15:30 UTC and 22:40 UTC, we experienced delays starting jobs on Docker (Gen 2) resource classes due to capacity constraints from our cloud provider. Delays reached up to approximately 1 minute 48 seconds. We are continuing to experience these delays again since approximately 15:45 UTC. So far, delays have reached up to approximately 1 minute 19 seconds. We are working with our cloud provider to add capacity and will update this incident as the situation changes.

  2. resolved Jul 15, 2026, 12:32 AM UTC

    On July 13 between 15:30 UTC and 22:40 UTC, we experienced delays starting jobs on Docker (Gen 2) resource classes due to capacity constraints from our cloud provider. The same issue recurred on July 14 between 15:45 UTC and 22:50 UTC. Delays reached up to 25 minutes on July 13 and up to 24 minutes on July 14. The medium+ and 2 X-large+ resource classes saw the longest waits. Earlier updates in this incident reported figures based on average wait times, which didn't reflect the maximum impact some customers may have experienced. Wait times have now returned to normal. We are continuing to work with our cloud provider to add capacity ahead of the next peak period. Thank you for your patience.

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