GitHub Incident Impacting CircleCI Pipeline Operations

CircleCI reports major incident affecting pipeline triggering and logging due to upstream GitHub issues.

By The Downtime · Aug 17, 2026 · 2:15 PM ·Updated 5 days ago

CircleCI is experiencing a major incident stemming from a reported GitHub outage. According to CircleCI's status page, the GitHub incident is impacting CircleCI's pipeline triggering and logging functionality. Jobs currently in flight are running normally, but status reporting to GitHub Pull Requests may fail.

CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous deployment platform widely used by software development teams to automate testing and deployment workflows.

CircleCI identified the issue and linked to GitHub's official incident report at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx. The company has not yet provided a timeline for resolution.

This is a developing story. We will update as more information becomes available.

🕒 Live updates (7)

resolved Aug 17, 7:05 PM

GitHub's APIs appear to be operating normally.

monitoring Aug 17, 5:23 PM

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.

monitoring Aug 17, 5:01 PM

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

monitoring Aug 17, 4:22 PM

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

identified Aug 17, 3:49 PM

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.

identified Aug 17, 2:25 PM

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.

identified Aug 17, 2:04 PM

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.

📎 Sources

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