Outage report · Major outage

Bitbucket outage on Mar 6, 2026

Disrupted Bitbucket availability

SeverityMajor outage

StartedMar 6, 2026, 02:44UTC

ResolvedMar 6, 2026, 05:11UTC

Duration2h 27m

What happened

Bitbucket reported a major outage starting Mar 6, 2026, 02:44 UTC, affecting Website, API, Git via SSH, Authentication and user management, Git via HTTPS, Webhooks, Source downloads, Pipelines and 4 more. It was marked resolved at Mar 6, 2026, 05:11 UTC.

The incident lasted 2h 27m from first report to resolution.
Bitbucket had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
1 other vendor we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Bitbucket

### Summary On March 6, 2026, between 02:19 UTC and 04:00 UTC, Bitbucket Cloud experienced an incident impacting the web app, API, CLI, and Pipelines operations. This was caused by the Bitbucket application hitting a regional provisioning API rate limit with our hosting provider, preventing application workers from handling website traffic. The incident was detected within 1 minute by automated monitoring and mitigated by scaling systems down and then back up to full capacity which put Atlassian systems into a known good state. ### **IMPACT** The incident resulted in a Bitbucket Cloud services being unavailable for 1 hour and 6 minutes on March 6, 2026 between 02:19 UTC and 03:25 UTC, followed by degraded website performance until 04:00 UTC. During this time, customers were unable to access Bitbucket services including the web app, Git operations \(clone, push, pull over HTTPS and SSH\), API, and running builds in Pipelines. ### **ROOT CAUSE** The issue stemmed from a change to an

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