Buildkite outage, 3 August 2026
Latency on Pipelines
- Started
- Resolved
- 3 Aug 2026, 05:36 UTC (after 26 min)
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- Job Queue
Last update from Buildkite
## Service Impact Between 04:40 and 05:34 UTC on 3 August 2026, Buildkite stopped running recurring background work. Every background job process across the product was affected. The customer-visible impact was concentrated in Pipelines. During this window, scheduled builds did not start at their scheduled time, jobs waited longer than usual before being dispatched to an agent, in some cases by more than ten minutes, and pipeline uploads and inbound webhook processing were delayed. Job timeouts were not enforced, so a job that should have timed out kept running, and agents that had finished or gone away were not cleaned up promptly. Scheduled builds were not skipped. Every schedule that c...
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