Outage in Circle CI

Some pipelines not triggering due to GitHub API failures

Resolved Major

April 01, 2026 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted 33 minutes
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Summary AI Generated

Circle CI experienced a major service incident where some pipelines failed to trigger due to high error rates from GitHub's `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits` API endpoint. The issue affected manually-triggered pipelines, OAuth hooks, and scheduled pipelines for 33 minutes. The incident was resolved when GitHub's API endpoint became stable and responsive again.

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.

Components affected

Circle CI GitHub API Requests Circle CI Pipelines & Workflows

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 04/01/2026 12:23PM

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

MONITORING about 2 months ago - at 04/01/2026 12:12PM

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

IDENTIFIED about 2 months ago - at 04/01/2026 11:58AM

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

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 04/01/2026 11:55AM

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.

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