CircleCI incident: Errors accessing CircleCI and delays starting pipelines and scheduled workflows

Affected components

• Pipelines & Workflows

1. resolvedJul 17, 2026, 00:26 UTC

   An incident affecting GitHub's API caused CircleCI customers to experience errors loading the web app and signing in, along with pipelines and scheduled workflows failing to start or running late. GitHub has resolved the underlying incident (https://www.githubstatus.com/) and all affected functionality has returned to normal. Customers whose jobs or pipelines failed may rerun them. Scheduled pipelines and workflows that were missed during the incident will not run automatically and will need to be re-triggered. We thank you for your patience.

2. monitoringJul 17, 2026, 00:09 UTC

   What's happening The upstream incident affecting GitHub has been mitigated and is now being monitored on GitHub's side. You can follow GitHub's status at https://www.githubstatus.com/. What can you expect Access to the CircleCI web app, sign-in, and pipeline and workflow processing are returning to normal. You may still see intermittent errors or delayed scheduled pipelines and workflows as systems stabilize. Thank you for your patience while we monitor for full recovery.

3. identifiedJul 16, 2026, 23:42 UTC

   We are continuing to see high failure rates from GitHub APIs which are impacting login and workflow processing. We will continue to monitor the GitHub API for recovery.

4. investigatingJul 16, 2026, 23:04 UTC

   We're investigating an issue where customers may see errors loading the CircleCI web app and signing in, along with pipelines and scheduled workflows failing to start or running late. This is related to an ongoing incident affecting GitHub. You can follow GitHub's status at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gxycch3076xk. Our engineers are actively investigating. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information to share.

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.

• Render: GitHub outage affecting new service creation and service deploysCritical · Jul 16, 2026, 22:42 UTC
• LaunchDarkly: LaunchDarkly is operational but customer action may be requiredMinor · Jul 10, 2026, 16:00 UTC
• Akamai: Application Load Balancer reporting availability issuesMinor · Jul 16, 2026, 04:21 UTC
• OneSignal: Journeys - delayed processingMinor · Jul 16, 2026, 15:32 UTC
• Sentry: Github Integration Webhook processing delayMinor · Jul 16, 2026, 21:06 UTC
• Vercel: GitHub-linked deployments and authentication affectedMinor · Jul 16, 2026, 23:09 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