CircleCI Status · History · Incident #6475

RESOLVED

GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

Major · Started Aug 17, 2026 · 2:04 PM

  • Duration

    5h 1m

  • Severity

    Major

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

    Peak 1/hr

Summary

GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.


  • Started

    Aug 17, 2026 · 2:04 PM

  • Resolved

    Aug 17, 2026 · 7:05 PM

  • Duration

    5h 1m

  • Severity

    Major

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Identified

    Aug 17 · 2:04 PM 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.

  • Identified

    Aug 17 · 2:25 PM CircleCI

    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

    Aug 17 · 3:49 PM CircleCI

    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.

  • Monitoring

    Aug 17 · 4:22 PM CircleCI

    We have started to observe improved stability in GitHub APIs. We will continue to monitor as they recover.

  • Monitoring

    Aug 17 · 5:01 PM CircleCI

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

  • Monitoring

    Aug 17 · 5:23 PM CircleCI

    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.

  • Resolved

    Aug 17 · 7:05 PM CircleCI

    GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

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Peak: 1 reports/hr

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