Bitbucket outage, 6 March 2026
Disrupted Bitbucket availability
- Started
- Resolved
- 6 Mar 2026, 05:11 UTC (after 2 h 27 min)
- Impact
- Critical
- Affected
- Website, API, Git via SSH, Authentication and user management, Git via HTTPS, Webhooks, Source downloads, Pipelines, Git LFS, Email delivery, Purchasing & Licensing, Signup
Last 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, fol...
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