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Issues identified with buildkite-agent registration

Degraded Lasted 1h 31m · started · Buildkite's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Agent API
Down Index
19of 100

What to do

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

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 31m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-08-26 01:42 UTC and 2026-08-26 03:13 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Buildkite 5

  1. investigating

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

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  2. investigating

    We identified issues affecting certain customers when the buildkite-agent attempts to register with Buildkite. When agents are not able to register, builds may start to back up. We've identified a potential root case and are attempting changes to fix it.

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  3. investigating

    We have rolled out a few changes to fix the underlying issues and are seeing signs of recovery. We'll keep monitoring until all systems are fully recovered and communicate once we are confident everything is stable again.

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  4. monitoring

    Recovery is underway; we'll keep monitoring until recovery is complete.

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  5. resolved

    Mitigation strategies worked as expected and now agent registration is back to normal. All systems are stable now.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-3495e10d3d

Is Buildkite still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-08-26 03:13 UTC. For Buildkite's live state, see https://down.guide/buildkite.

How long did it last?

1h 31m, from 2026-08-26 01:42 UTC to 2026-08-26 03:13 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.