CircleCI incident: GitHub service degradation may impact customers using GitHub

Affected components

• Pipelines & Workflows

1. resolvedAug 12, 2026, 16:43 UTC

   The issue impacting customers who use GitHub as their VCS while GitHub was undergoing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h) has now been resolved. GitHub has resolved the underlying issue and the affected functionality has returned to normal. We thank you for your patience.

2. identifiedAug 12, 2026, 16:33 UTC

   GitHub is currently experiencing a service degradation (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h). Customers who use GitHub as their VCS may experience impact to their CircleCI platform experience as a result, impacting checkout and workflows. We will provide another update as we have more information to share. Thank you for your patience.

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.

• Akamai: Certificate Provisioning System (CPS) IssuesMinor · Aug 11, 2026, 10:11 UTC
• Anthropic: Degraded performance for multiple modelsMinor · Aug 12, 2026, 13:50 UTC
• GitHub: Incident with Pull Requests and IssuesMinor · Aug 12, 2026, 16:16 UTC

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