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CircleCI incident: Increased task wait times for Docker Gen2

CircleCI reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 7, 2026, 18:54 UTC. It was resolved after 1h 11m.

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Oct 7, 2026, 18:54 UTC
started
Oct 7, 2026, 20:05 UTC
resolved
1h 11m
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • Docker Jobs
  1. postmortemOct 8, 2026, 17:54 UTC

    ## **Summary** Between October 1 and October 8, 2026, CircleCI customers experienced five separate incidents in which jobs waited longer than normal to start, or failed to start. Three of the incidents were driven by limited instance availability from our cloud provider. One was caused by a configuration issue in our scheduling infrastructure, and one by memory limits on an internal service, which we raised during the incident. * **October 1, 07:57 to 10:24 UTC:** Docker Gen 2 jobs waited up to 30 minutes to start. A configuration issue prevented the Gen 2 scheduling servers from using their high-performance local disks. During a burst in traffic, the fallback disks saturated and job placement slowed. * **October 7, 13:27 to 14:06 UTC:** Machine jobs waited longer than normal because we could not acquire enough virtual machines from our cloud provider. * **October 7, 14:24 to 15:21 UTC:** Some jobs failed with an infrastructure error, and workflows were delayed. The service that give

  2. resolvedOct 7, 2026, 20:05 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  3. monitoringOct 7, 2026, 19:52 UTC

    We're still seeing spikes in task wait times but on average wait times are looking better for all Docker Gen2.

  4. identifiedOct 7, 2026, 19:00 UTC

    Note: delays will be more noticeable for people running on Docker `xlarge` and above.

  5. identifiedOct 7, 2026, 18:54 UTC

    There is an increased wait time for jobs on Docker Gen2.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Oct 7, 2026, 18:58 UTCoperational → degraded
  • Oct 7, 2026, 20:08 UTCdegraded → operational

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