Skip to main content
CircleCI

Some pipelines not triggering due to GitHub API failures

Partial outage Lasted 29m · started · CircleCI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Pipelines & Workflows, GitHub API Requests
Down Index
27of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use CircleCI Pipelines & Workflows, GitHub API Requests. 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 29m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-04-01 11:55 UTC and 2026-04-01 12:23 UTC may need a replay.
  • Subscribe to CircleCI's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

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

Updates from CircleCI 4

  1. investigating

    Some pipelines may not trigger due to a high rate of API failures on one of GitHub's API endpoints. This includes some manually-triggered pipelines, some OAuth hooks and some scheduled pipelines.

    provider

  2. identified

    We are continuing to see very high error rates from GitHub's `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits` API.

    provider

  3. monitoring

    GitHub's `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits` API has appeared to recover. We will continue to monitor this.

    provider

  4. resolved

    It appears that GitHub's `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits` API is now stable and responsive.

    provider

Reports count in aggregate; nothing about you is shown.

Corrections

None so far.

Something wrong on this page? Report an error or send us a note. Every fix is listed here.

Questions about DWN-ecb3ab1572

Is CircleCI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-04-01 12:23 UTC. For CircleCI's live state, see https://down.guide/circleci.

How long did it last?

29m, from 2026-04-01 11:55 UTC to 2026-04-01 12:23 UTC, by the times CircleCI posted.

What was affected?

CircleCI named Pipelines & Workflows, GitHub API Requests.

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.