CircleCI Status · History · Incident #1517

RESOLVED

Some pipelines not triggering due to GitHub API failures

Major · Started Apr 1, 2026 · 11:55 AM

  • Duration

    28m

  • Severity

    Major

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

Summary

Some pipelines not triggering due to GitHub API failures

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


  • Started

    Apr 1, 2026 · 11:55 AM

  • Resolved

    Apr 1, 2026 · 12:23 PM

  • Duration

    28m

  • Severity

    Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Investigating

    Apr 1 · 11:55 AM CircleCI

    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.

  • Identified

    Apr 1 · 11:58 AM CircleCI

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

  • Monitoring

    Apr 1 · 12:12 PM CircleCI

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

  • Resolved

    Apr 1 · 12:23 PM CircleCI

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

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