CircleCIOutage history and postmortems
Downtime, added up
CircleCI: 39m weighted downtime in range, category median 1h 52m.
27 incidents, 2d 21h of incident time (6h 20m major or critical, 2d 15h partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.
Stated causes
83 incidents with no cause stated.
CircleCI incidents
94 on fileDelays in processing new signups and plan changesSep 23, 2026, 18:131h 53mInformationalNot disclosed
Delays starting Linux Machine jobsSep 21, 2026, 16:2247mMinorNot disclosed
Customers may experience delays in UI updatesSep 16, 2026, 14:554h 35mMinorNot disclosed
Customers may experience delays in UI updatesSep 15, 2026, 14:422h 20mMinorNot disclosed
Increased wait times for macOS jobsSep 14, 2026, 11:591hMinorNetwork
Issues loading pipelines for a small number of projectsSep 10, 2026, 20:251mMinorNot disclosed
macOS Job DelaysSep 4, 2026, 15:161h 40mMinorNot disclosed
Intermittent errors when viewing plan usage UIs or calling plan usage APIsAug 26, 2026, 15:4327mMinorNot disclosed
GitHub Login DisruptionAug 25, 2026, 23:200mMinorNot disclosed
Insight data is currently delayedAug 17, 2026, 21:0631mMinorNot disclosed
GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionalityAug 17, 2026, 14:045h 1mMajorNot disclosed
GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHubAug 12, 2026, 16:3310mMinorNot disclosed
Delayed pipeline updates and pipeline processing failuresAug 11, 2026, 17:4217mInformationalNot disclosed
Usage API data delayed for 8/5Aug 6, 2026, 13:066h 48mInformationalNot disclosed
Insights service data is laggingAug 5, 2026, 16:584h 3mMinorNot disclosed
Increased Job Queue Times: Windows, Android, and GPUAug 4, 2026, 19:274h 13mMinorDependency
GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHubJul 24, 2026, 16:351h 6mMinorNot disclosed
Delays in starting jobs using the gen3 resource classJul 22, 2026, 19:576h 8mMinorNot disclosed
Errors loading app.circleci.comJul 22, 2026, 06:1314mInformationalNot disclosed
Errors with GitHub APIs delaying workflowsJul 20, 2026, 00:351h 10mMinorNot disclosed
Errors accessing CircleCI and delays starting pipelines and scheduled workflowsJul 16, 2026, 23:041h 22mMinorNot disclosed
Delays starting jobs on Docker (Gen 2) resource classesJul 14, 2026, 22:541h 38mMinorDependency
Login issues for some Bitbucket usersJul 14, 2026, 02:492h 26mMinorNot disclosed
Issues with network routing for Mac jobsJul 13, 2026, 21:5225h 27mMinorCapacity
Issues with network routing for Mac jobsJul 13, 2026, 18:5544mMinorNot disclosed
Outage impacting web experience and pipelines startingJul 2, 2026, 15:251h 19mCriticalNot disclosed
Some customers are unable to access their organizationsJun 29, 2026, 10:236h 35mMinorNot disclosed
Xcode 26.6 Demand + QueueingJun 26, 2026, 15:000mMinorNot disclosed
Investigating , Usage API Not AvailableJun 25, 2026, 22:4420mMinorNot disclosed
Issues with network routing for Mac jobsJun 24, 2026, 23:133h 53mMinorDependency
Questions
Is CircleCI down right now?
Check CircleCI's own status page at https://status.circleci.com for the live state. This page shows CircleCI's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-23: "Delays in processing new signups and plan changes".
How often does CircleCI have outages?
CircleCI posted 28 incidents in the last 90 days and 94 in the last year, 2 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 1h 21m.
When was CircleCI's last major outage?
2026-08-17: "GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality", lasting 5h 1m.
What usually causes CircleCI incidents?
Where CircleCI explained the cause, the most common was third-party dependency (4 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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