Delays with notifications and background processing

What to do

• Check whether you use Circle REST API, Notifications, Workflows. Check your stack

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• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 7h 18m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-11-03 20:00 UTC and 2026-11-04 03:18 UTC may need a replay.

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Updates from Circle 3

1. identifiedNov 3, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

   We’ve identified an issue in our background processing system that is causing delays in some areas of Circle. You may notice delays with new post notifications, drip notifications, workflows, storage usage updates, and more. Delayed items are queued and will be processed. Until it clears, how long things take may vary, and some may arrive well after you’d normally expect them. We don’t have an estimate for full recovery yet, but we’re working on one and will share it here as soon as we have it.

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2. identifiedNov 3, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

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3. resolvedNov 4, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

   We experienced a higher-than-usual volume of content being created on the platform, which temporarily increased the load on our background processing systems and resulted in some delays.

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Corrections

None so far.

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