Bitbucket incident: Bitbucket Pipelines degraded performance

Affected components

• API
• Authentication and user management
• Email delivery
• Git LFS
• Git via HTTPS
• Git via SSH
• Pipelines
• Purchasing & Licensing
• Signup
• Source downloads
• Webhooks
• Website

1. resolvedApr 16, 2026, 20:44 UTC

   On April 16 at 8:00PM UTC Bitbucket Pipelines users may have experienced performance degradation running new pipelines. The issue has now been resolved, and the service is operating normally for all affected customers.

2. monitoringApr 16, 2026, 20:44 UTC

   We are investigating cases of degraded performance for Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines customers. We mitigated an issue preventing new pipelines from starting, and have scaled up services are processing a backlog. Customers should see recovery shortly.

3. monitoringApr 16, 2026, 20:23 UTC

   We are investigating cases of degraded performance for Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines customers. We mitigated an issue preventing new pipelines from starting, and have scaled up services are processing a backlog. Customers should see recovery shortly.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Bitbucket's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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