Outage report · Major outage

CircleCI outage on Jul 2, 2026

Outage impacting web experience and pipelines starting

SeverityMajor outage

StartedJul 2, 2026, 15:25UTC

ResolvedJul 2, 2026, 16:44UTC

Duration1h 19m

What happened

CircleCI reported a major outage starting Jul 2, 2026, 15:25 UTC, affecting Pipelines & Workflows, CircleCI UI. It was marked resolved at Jul 2, 2026, 16:44 UTC.

The incident lasted 1h 19m from first report to resolution.
CircleCI had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
10 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from CircleCI

## Summary On July 2, 2026, from 15:12 UTC to 16:44 UTC, some CircleCI customers experienced failures starting pipelines and difficulty accessing the CircleCI UI, including an inability to log in. Customers triggering pipelines via the API may also have had pipelines fail to run. The incident originated from a combination of internal maintenance and customer-initiated project deletions running concurrently, which caused elevated load on a data service. The connection layer between our API and that data service was not configured to time out slow responses under the elevated load conditions seen during this incident. This eventually exhausted available threads and prevented the request routing layer from handling any other requests, resulting in customer-facing errors. The affected services were scaled up and the internal maintenance job was canceled to reduce pressure, allowing all affected functionality to return to normal. Customers whose jobs failed during this window may rerun a

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