# Degraded performance - Workflows

- Provider: [Circle](https://down.guide/providers/circle)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 1h 3m
- started 2026-01-14 18:03 UTC
- Workflows
- id: DWN-156f5eb0d7
- Official page: https://stspg.io/5rp02pvxrjqc

## Root cause
> The issue was caused by increased load on our workflows application.

[Postmortem](https://stspg.io/5rp02pvxrjqc)

## Updates from Circle
### 2026-01-14 18:03 UTC: investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.

### 2026-01-14 18:19 UTC: identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

### 2026-01-14 19:06 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved. On January 14th, Circle experienced a brief period of degraded performance and partial unavailability. The issue was caused by increased load on our workflows application.

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