CircleCI outage: GitHub Incidents impacting CircleCI functionality

1. resolvedAug 17, 2026, 19:05 UTC

   GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

2. monitoringAug 17, 2026, 17:23 UTC

   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.

3. monitoringAug 17, 2026, 17:01 UTC

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

4. monitoringAug 17, 2026, 16:22 UTC

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

5. identifiedAug 17, 2026, 15:49 UTC

   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.

6. identifiedAug 17, 2026, 14:25 UTC

   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.

7. identifiedAug 17, 2026, 14:04 UTC

   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.

What APIStatus.watch saw

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

Other services with incidents at the same time

Overlapping incidents aren't necessarily related.

• GitHub: Incident with GitHub.comCritical · Aug 17, 2026, 13:40 UTC
• Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch 9.5.1: false-positive matches in certain boolean queriesMajor · Aug 14, 2026, 09:22 UTC
• Cursor: GitHub degradation affecting some Cursor services — Automations, Cloud Agents, CodebaseMajor · Aug 17, 2026, 14:34 UTC
• dbt Cloud: Git Failures in dbt PlatformMajor · Aug 17, 2026, 15:02 UTC
• Shippo: EVRi Label generation outageMajor · Aug 17, 2026, 16:27 UTC
• Akamai: Connection drops and increased latency in MiamiMinor · Aug 13, 2026, 19:31 UTC
• Supabase: 401 errors due to JWT rejectionsMinor · Aug 14, 2026, 02:23 UTC
• HashiCorp Vault: Delayed HCP Terraform RunsMinor · Aug 15, 2026, 17:08 UTC
• LaunchDarkly: Flag Updates via Polling API delayedMinor · Aug 17, 2026, 10:36 UTC
• GitBook: GitHub outage affecting Git SyncMinor · Aug 17, 2026, 13:56 UTC

How often does CircleCI have incidents?

CircleCI reported 22 incidents in the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 1h 38m. See CircleCI's uptime and incident history