Outage in Circle CI
GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
A GitHub API incident lasting approximately 5 hours disrupted CircleCI functionality for GitHub-based users, affecting pipeline triggering, login, webhook processing, and commit status reporting to Pull Requests. In-flight jobs continued to run, but PR status updates were unreliable during the outage. The incident resolved once GitHub's APIs returned to normal operation.
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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RESOLVED
about 1 hour ago - at 08/17/2026 07:05PM
GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.
MONITORING
about 3 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 05:23PM
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.
MONITORING
about 3 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 05:01PM
GitHub API error rates and latencies appear to have recovered. We will continue to monitor.
MONITORING
about 4 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 04:22PM
We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.
IDENTIFIED
about 4 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 03:49PM
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.
IDENTIFIED
about 5 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 02:25PM
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.
IDENTIFIED
about 6 hours ago - at 08/17/2026 02:04PM
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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