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Outage in CircleCI

GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

Resolved Major
August 17, 2026 - Started 17 days ago - Lasted about 5 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

A GitHub API incident lasting approximately 5 hours disrupted CircleCI pipeline triggering, user login, webhook processing, and commit status reporting to GitHub Pull Requests. In-flight jobs continued running, but GitHub-integrated workflows were degraded due to high API error rates and reduced webhook traffic. GitHub's APIs fully recovered and the incident was resolved with no further action required from CircleCI.

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 17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 07:05PM

GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

MONITORING 17 days 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 17 days ago - at 08/17/2026 05:01PM

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

MONITORING 17 days 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 17 days 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 17 days 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 17 days 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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