# GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

- Provider: [CircleCI](https://down.guide/circleci)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 5h 1m
- started 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC
- id: DWN-9582fa8e83
- Official page: https://stspg.io/mk4lvmlx939f

## Updates from CircleCI
### 2026-08-17 14:04 UTC: 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.

### 2026-08-17 14:25 UTC: 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.

### 2026-08-17 15:49 UTC: 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.

### 2026-08-17 16:22 UTC: monitoring
We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.

### 2026-08-17 17:01 UTC: monitoring
GitHub API error rates and latencies appear to have recovered. We will continue to monitor.

### 2026-08-17 17:23 UTC: 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.

### 2026-08-17 19:05 UTC: resolved
GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

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