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Increased latency and error rates

Degraded Lasted 28m · started · Buildkite's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Agent API
Down Index
17of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Buildkite Agent API. Check your stack

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Updates from Buildkite 2

  1. investigating

    We're observing increased latency and error rates in the Agent API for a subset of our customers. We're currently investigating and will provide status updates as they become available.

    provider

  2. resolved

    An increase in requests has lead to the API service being temporarily saturated. We have updated rate limits to ensure this doesn't re-occur and will add further resources if necessary

    provider

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-13b6b645f0

Is Buildkite still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-05-04 06:30 UTC. For Buildkite's live state, see https://down.guide/buildkite.

How long did it last?

28m, from 2026-05-04 06:02 UTC to 2026-05-04 06:30 UTC, by the times Buildkite posted.

What was affected?

Buildkite named Agent API.

What caused it?

Buildkite hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Buildkite's official status page, https://www.buildkitestatus.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.