Buildkite service disruption

What to do

• Check whether you use Buildkite Hosted Agents. 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 57m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-08-17 00:46 UTC and 2026-08-17 02:43 UTC may need a replay.

• Subscribe to Buildkite's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=buildkite works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from Buildkite 4

1. investigatingAug 17, 2026, 12:46 AM UTC

   We've spotted that something has gone wrong. We're currently investigating the issue, and will provide an update soon.

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2. investigatingAug 17, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

   We’re investigating elevated latency in background worker processing between approximately 12:39am and 1:02am UTC. Processing has since caught up and was near real time as of 1:13am UTC. We’re continuing to monitor the service and are checking remaining retries. Some builds or hosted-agent-related operations may have experienced delays during this period. We’ll provide another update as soon as we have confirmed the service is stable and have more information about the cause. We apologise for the disruption.

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3. monitoringAug 17, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC

   We have confirmed that all background workers have caught up as of 1:13am UTC. Hosted Agents dispatch has returned to normal. We'll continue to to monitor the service and are checking remaining retries.

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4. resolvedAug 17, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

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Corrections

None so far.

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