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GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

Partial outage Lasted 5h 1m · started · CircleCI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Down Index
31of 100

What to do

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 5h 1m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC and 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from CircleCI 7

  1. identified

    GitHub has reported an incident that is impacting CircleCI pipeline triggering and logging in: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx Jobs that are in flights are running, but status reporting to GitHub Pull Requests may fail.

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  2. identified

    We are continuing to see high error rates on GitHub APIs and reduced webhook traffic. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.

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  3. identified

    We are continuing to see high error rates on GitHub's APIs and reduced webhook traffic. Customers using GitHub as their VCS may experience impact to their CircleCI platform experience as a result. This is directly linked to the incident GitHub is experiencing: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

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  4. monitoring

    We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.

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  5. monitoring

    GitHub API error rates and latencies appear to have recovered. We will continue to monitor.

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  6. monitoring

    Some of GitHub's APIs are still degraded, resulting in a small number of failures relating to commit status updates and hook processing. We will continue to do our best to mitigate these effects.

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  7. resolved

    GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

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Corrections

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Questions about DWN-9582fa8e83

Is CircleCI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC. For CircleCI's live state, see https://down.guide/circleci.

How long did it last?

5h 1m, from 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC to 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC, by the times CircleCI posted.

What caused it?

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

Where does this come from?

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